Dan yang memaki tkw sampah, adalah si debil idiot itemabu --- In [email protected], item abu <itemabu@...> wrote: > > Orang2 Indonesia yg ngirim tkw itu umumnya orang Arab, dan tentunya mereka > itu orang Islam, hehehe.... > Â > > From: Sunny <ambon@...> > >To: Undisclosed-Recipient@... > >Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:07 PM > >Subject: [proletar] Gangs and middlemen exploit market of hiring housemaids > > > > > >Â > >Refl: Bagaimana dengan misi Dr Habibie, mantan presiden NKRI, yang diberi > >tugas istimewa oleh SBY untuk menyelamatkan TKW dari hukuman mati di Arab > >Saudia. Tidak ada berita selain Habibie menyerahkan riwayat hidupnya kepada > >pangeran Alaweed. Sudah hampir satu bulan lamanya misinya itu, belum ada > >khabar jelas hasilnya. Apakah masih terus berunding ataukah gagal misi tsb > >dalam arti tidak diharaukan oleh pemerintah Arab Saudia? > > > >Tentu saja seperti berita di bawah ini bahwa gangster dan pengatara > >mengexploatasi TKW. Tetapi, barangkali juga tidak boleh dilupakan bahwa > >pemerintah NKRI juga mempunyai peranan istimewa sebagai sponsor âlegal > >human traffickingâ untuk mengirim berbondong tenaga kerja tanpa > >perlindungan hukum sepatutnya, demi untuk mengurangangi tekanan pengangguran > >terhadap beleid politik penenpatan tenaga kerja dalam negeri dan pada juga > >pada lain pihak untuk mendapat tambahan devisa, TKW/TKI dengan bangga oleh > >penguasa rezim diberi gelar pahlawan devisa selama ini (kurang lebih 40 > >tahun). > > > >http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article565952.ece > >Gangs and middlemen exploit market of hiring housemaids > > > >Many maids come without knowledge or experience and they are asked to > >pretend that they had this knowledge and experience and show good manners in > >the first three months. > > > >By ALI BLUWI | ARAB NEWS > > > >Published: Jan 20, 2012 23:30 Updated: Jan 20, 2012 23:30 > > > >RIYADH: After years of refusing to consider having a maid in my house, I > >finally gave in. I hired a maid after I did what was possible to avoid this > >choice for several reasons. First, I do not know this new human being and > >would find it hard to accept her as part of my household. Second, I do not > >like injustice and tyranny to be inflicted on myself; therefore it is > >equally difficult for me to accept it when it touches others. That said, I > >had to give in. I tried my best to be accurate and lucky in my choices. At > >the beginning, I naively thought that the market is economic and based on > >service for a service. I thought that those maids coming from Asia were > >looking for two things. First, to find families that are fair; and second, > >to receive their wages in full. > > > >Yet, this rosy picture faded away when I made the first mistake. The > >employment office was not able to transfer the sponsorship quickly enough > >after I paid in full all required amounts of money and even more. The owner > >of the office used different reasons for this slowdown. After he realized > >that I might file a complaint against him he tried to blackmail me. He said > >that he would file a complaint claiming I had hosted a fleeing maid! It is > >then when I felt let down. Luckily enough, one lawyer was aware of these > >kinds of fraud offices. This took place before employment offices became > >monitored. Furthermore, the lawyer told me that many maids came from Asia > >without knowledge or experience. They are asked to pretend that they had > >this knowledge and experience and show good manners in the first three > >months. This three-month trial period is important because during this > >period the employment office is accountable and after that it is the > >responsibility of > the hosting family. I asked how this could happen especially when states > deal with each other according to agreements. Also embassies are there! Yet > some are good at being fraudulent. Furthermore, the cost of hiring a maid > through these offices is extremely high and it would be much better if we are > allowed to hire maids directly. The lawyer called the employment office and > he managed to verify his identity. This office deals with fleeing maids. He > said the market of maids is spread not only in the Gulf but also in Asia. > Many maids lose their organs in these countries because of their dealing with > fraudulent gangs. > > > >Despite all strict procedures, this phenomenon is not coming to an end > >easily. Some maids are asked to stay for four months and then ask for > >permission to travel to see their families. When they fail to show up again, > >the employment office has a legal argument that its responsibility is > >limited to the first three months, the trial period. What happens to the > >maid that pushes her to change entirely after this period? Losses are high, > >the office takes all of its fees but the family suffers financially alone. > >According to studies, the losses of Saudi families due to the phenomenon of > >maids fleeing have surpassed SR50 million annually. The problem lies in the > >fact that there is no official body to protect the rights of the maid and > >the family alike. The Ministry of Labor has set new regulations such as > >forming big employment offices to work according to certain regulations. > >Yet, this will not end the phenomenon of fleeing maids that is seen as a > >parallel > lucrative market. > > > >One of the owners of an employment office told Arab News that the problem > >was not in the official procedures nor in the certified employment offices, > >but in the mock offices that have been working in an illegal and > >illegitimate way. This is true with Asian employment offices. Some of these > >Asian offices encourage the maids to run away to get more money. These Asian > >offices plant some agents in mock offices that are spread in the Gulf > >countries. Maids are provided with the phone numbers of new middlemen to > >facilitate their fleeing. A Saudi citizen said that he hired an African maid > >but she fled after one week. He informed the office and she was returned by > >the office. He agreed with the office to replace her with another one. The > >office promised to get another maid within 45 days. But it turned out that > >the office was employing the maid to work on a daily basis or on an hourly > >basis. But finally she was caught. The irony is that she was allowed to come > into the country on his name, so this Saudi citizen is legally responsible > and she was whisked back to her country on his expense! > > > >A friend said that he hired a man from Asia. He proved to be good during the > >first few months to the extent that he was entrusted to deposit checks and > >money in banks. But after mingling with some Asian cab drivers, he began to > >exhibit different behavior. When he was asked to deposit around SR20,000, he > >went to the bank, but later he phoned saying that he was cleaning the car > >and was doing some maintenance services and that he would be back by > >afternoon. A while later, the police called the Saudi citizen telling him > >that his car was in a wrong parking position at the airport. The police had > >to tow it. It turned out that the driver has fled the country. Before that, > >he had asked for his passport for the sake of his own embassy. But he > >managed to run away and leave the country before the introduction of the > >optical system that indeed limited the possibility of fleeing. Three months > >after that, the Saudi citizen saw his former driver in a shopping mall. He > chased him but it turned out that the former driver has already changed his > passport and name altogether. The story with the Saudi citizen continued. He > had to look for another driver. He was told that there was an office in one > of the neighborhoods that could secure him a driver. He went there and the > office asked for SR2,000 a month for the driver. The Saudi citizen had to > accept this arrangement until he could find another one. But it turned out > that this driver was also a fleeing one! It also turned out that he only > received SR1,200 and the rest goes to the office. > > > >One of the residents in Saudi Arabia, Salem Al-Taher, emphasized that he > >wanted to hire a Philippine maid provided that she knows English to help his > >children learn the language. He was told that as a resident, he did not have > >the right to bring a maid from Asia but this problem could be solved by > >transferring the sponsorship to his name. Al-Taher said his wife and he > >talked to one of the maids frankly about the nature of work. They are a > >small family with three children, the oldest being eight years. After one > >night, the maid said that she wanted to go back to the office. The moment > >that they arrived at the office, she tried to flee but she was caught and > >handed over to the embassy. But there are those who said that the moment a > >maid arrives in the embassy, she is given a new passport to travel or > >transferred to work somewhere else. > > > >Owners of employment offices defend themselves by saying that their legal > >task ends after the three months trial period. They argue that abusing them > >or not paying them in full forces them to run away. They said that there was > >a need to come up with a formula that protects the rights of the three > >components: the family, the office, and the maid. They also say that they > >are not a judicial body and that following up the fleeing ones is a security > >issue that fall outside the domain of the employment offices. > > > >One maid, Kamary, says that she came to Saudi Arabia before Ramadan and she > >wants to run away and work freely. She says that she first worked for a > >Saudi family for SR600, but after receiving abusive treatment she ran away. > >The employment office transferred her to work for other Saudi families on a > >daily basis. Now she earns some SR2,000 but she has had it, she just wants > >to run away. > > > >In brief, the phenomenon of fleeing maids is less in Saudi Arabia than in > >the rest of the Gulf countries. The openness in these societies allows for > >this phenomenon to increase. The late procedures adopted by the Ministry of > >Labor in the Kingdom were effective. The insistence on establishing a big > >company to bring in maids will limit the scope of the problem. Saâad > >Al-Baddah â" the head of the founding committee of a new Saudi company â" > >said there will be mechanisms to protect all, including maids and families. > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
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