KUALA LUMPUR - The agreement to send Indonesian maids here is in jeopardy.
Indonesian embassy Information, Social as well as Cultural Affairs Minister-Counsellor Suryana Sastradiredja told the New Sunday Times that the embassy had advised the supervision to suspend the sending of maids to Malaysia indefinitely notwithstanding the actuality that maids had begun their compulsory precision this month.
"We received reports that dual maids were physically abused by the senior supervision central as well as his wife," Suryana said, adding that the dual victims were additionally not paid salaries.
"The central did not apply oneself the agreement done in in between the leaders of the nations," Suryana said. He declined to name the official.
Suryana pronounced the dual maids were recruited eight months ago during the moratorium period.
He revealed that one of the maids had sought preserve at the embassy upon Friday night, while the alternative had been asked to return home earlier by the official's wife.
Asked whether the military inform had been lodged, Suryana pronounced the embassy was still considering whether to do so as it concerned the high-ranking official.
"Diplomatic channels will be used. We will send the note to the Malaysian Home Ministry upon Monday as well as wait for the reaction. The Malaysian supervision should act accordingly."
Suryana pronounced the condition of sending maids here would depend upon the low mark meted out.
The Indonesian supervision criminialized the people from working as maids in Malaysia in Jun 2009, following countless cases o! f maids being abused by Malaysian employers.
A notable incident was that of 34-year-old Kartini, who was found dead in her employer's home with the fractured skull as well as bruises upon the hands as well as body.
Following her death, the Human Resources Ministry had due the arrangement of the special advisory as well as coercion unit to demeanour in to the gratification of abused maids.
In July 2009, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam had the meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Erman Suparno to discuss the resolution to the issue.
This led to the signing of the chit of understanding in in between Kuala Lumpur as well as Jakarta in May final year, that included conditions such as the weekly day off for maids, allowing them to keep their passports, as well as their salaries to be determined by marketplace forces.
-New Straits Times
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