Muntik Binti Bani Dies after brutal beating by Malaysian Employer
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From: alexong ongky <alexmigrantcare@ gmail.com>
Date: 2009/10/27
Subject: Muntik Binti Bani Dies after brutal beating by Malaysian Employer
To:
Media Release
Migrant CARE
Muntik Binti Bani Dies after brutal beating by Malaysian Employer
Muntik Binti Bani, 39, a migrant worker from Jember, East Java, Indonesia died
at Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang Selangor, Her backbone was broken, so was
her right wrist, and there were bruises on her face.
She was found in a bathroom when police raided the family’s home on Oct. 20,
2009
She arrived in Malaysia in November 2004. The current employer has employed her
only for two months and did not apply for her work permit that make Muntik
works without immigration work permit documents.
The death of Muntik binti Bani is becoming a very common incident happened to
Indonesian maids who are gross ignored, exploited and abused by the employers.
There are large number of domestic workers ran away from their employers to
escape the unviable working condition of solitudes and forced deduction of up
to 100% of their seven months’ salary to compensate the unscrupulous agency
fees that stand at RM 8,000 or equivalent 16 months of the workers’ salary)
We, urge Malaysian People to be aware of the licensed exploitative maid
recruitment systems that robbed the employers and the maids of their rightful
interests.
The Malaysian employers should not extorted with RM8,000 while the hiring cost
stand at not more than RM 2,200 while the maid who works more than 15 hours a
day deserve the rights to receive their rightful salary without the seven
months 100% deduction .
It is timely that Both Malaysian and Indonesian stopped compromising with the
Maid agencies profiteering practices with affirmative law enforcement to ease
the underpinning tensions between the people at the grass roots level by
disbanding the PAPA monopoly on maid recruitment and placement in Malaysia.
In the spirit of ASEAN, Migrant Care urge both government should agree that
Domestic workers should be given the rights to hold their passport, having a
day off and been paid amicably minimum wage according to their skill
qualifications.
Employers and the domestic workers can be better off without the exploitative
agency system that trade human being
Kuala Lumpur, October 26, 2009
Alex Ong
Malaysia Country Represntative
(0196001728)
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