In August 2007, two maids from Lampung, working for a family in Jatinegara, were beaten and scalded with hot water and locked in a cabinet for drinking the milk of their employer's children.
In July 2008, a housewife (with a history of mental illness) beat her maid to death in South Kedoya, West Jakarta.
National Network for Domestic Workers Advocacy has recorded 412 cases of domestic worker abuse between 2000-2007.
Not to mention some domestic workers receive very low pay for very heavy work. No weekly holidays and have few opportunities to socialize outside their workplace.
(Jakarta Post, Feb 16 2009)
What should we do???
I personally think that we should have legal protection for domestic workers.
We should also change the employers' perspective, domestic workers are professional workers...not slaves!
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