Ref: Mengapa NKRI masih mengirim TKW ke luarnegeri?  Kedua, bukankah menurut 
agama dikatakan bahwa kalau wanita atau isteri keluar rumah harus dikawali oleh 
muhirin? Jadi kalau dikirim tanpa dikawali, berarti pemerintah NKRI melanggar 
aturan agama. 

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Indonesian Maids Arrive in Malaysia After Ban: Report
June 03, 2012

Indonesia has resumed sending maids to work in Malaysia three years after a ban 
was enforced because of numerous abuse cases, but fewer than a third of them 
had arrived, a report said Sunday.

Indonesia, the main provider of domestic workers for Malaysia, announced last 
December it would lift the ban after the two countries agreed to better protect 
maids, including allowing them one day off per week.

The ban was imposed by Jakarta in June 2009 after numerous abuse cases and has 
been a sore point in relations between the two Southeast Asian neighbors.

A Malaysian labor recruitment official said while the number that arrived four 
days ago was small, it was “better than nothing.”

“We managed to bring only 29 maids as many had backed out because of the 
bureaucracy in the Indonesian recruitment system,” Jeffrey Foo, president of 
the Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies was quoted as saying by the 
New Sunday Times newspaper.

But Suryana Sastradiredja, a social and cultural affairs official at the 
Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said he had no idea why the turnout had 
been so low but indicated that it could be due to fear of abuse.

“Perhaps the salary is too low, or after hearing of abuse cases, they backed 
out. I do not know the real reason behind this,” he said.

It was reported earlier that up to 5,000 maids would arrive monthly after the 
ban was lifted.

Indonesian maids receive about 600 ringgit ($188) a month but often work from 
sunrise to sundown daily. They attend to the elderly, children and cook meals.

Before the ban was enforced some 300,000 Indonesian women worked in Malaysian 
households. The ban led to a shortage of maids that affected the daily routine 
of many working Malaysian parents.

Cambodia also imposed a ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia last 
October following numerous abuse complaints.

Agence France-Presse

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