Comments on: The plight Indonesian overseas maids http://www.aboutindonesia.com/the-plight-indonesian-overseas-maids/ One expat exploring and trying to understand more about Indonesia Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: walter http://www.aboutindonesia.com/the-plight-indonesian-overseas-maids/comment-page-1/#comment-405 walter Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:09:41 +0000 http://www.aboutindonesia.com/?p=163#comment-405 i have had a very good contact to my former helper , who used to work for me part time , in macau and we become friends, after i left she lost here main job in macau and decidet to go to Hong-kong . i advised here not to go to Hong-Kong because of the bade name hong-kong has among maids who went true hell with there mainly Chinese slave traders. we however still where sometimes in contact even the familie she used to work , did not alow here to use here mobile phone, she always had to hide the phone and she send me sms from time to time , here salary was instead of the 4000 HK $ the promissed only 1800 because the also charged here for the what the called food, my dog propaly would not have eaten dies gabadge. she had to take care for the two old sick parents of the employer , cook for all of them , at the evening work at the small shop from the employer and at 12 midnigth she was brougth home where she then could sleep in the kitchen on the floor on a bamboo matt, and at 4 am she need to get up again, we always had contact and i even informed the indonesian Embassy in Hong-Kong about this but she dont want to leave because she needet the money for here child at home in indonesia. one the last contacts we had, she told she is sick and very weak , but she has no time and money to go to a doctor , and suddently i dont get any answer anymore from here, maybe to take here mobile phone , ore maybe she died , ore i would say the worked here to death.. her name is sophia here email used to be sophia_kad@yahoo.com. i believe what she told me because i did know here very well and she never lyed to me. i hope she is well and just lost the phone ore phone number i have had a very good contact to my former helper , who used to work for me part time , in macau and we become friends, after i left she lost here main job in macau and decidet to go to Hong-kong .
i advised here not to go to Hong-Kong because of the bade name hong-kong has among maids who went true hell with there mainly Chinese slave traders.
we however still where sometimes in contact even the familie she used to work , did not alow here to use here mobile phone, she always had to hide the phone and she send me sms from time to time , here salary was instead of the 4000 HK $ the promissed only 1800 because the also charged here for the what the called food, my dog propaly would not have eaten dies gabadge. she had to take care for the two old sick parents of the employer , cook for all of them , at the evening work at the small shop from the employer and at 12 midnigth she was brougth home where she then could sleep in the kitchen on the floor on a bamboo matt, and at 4 am she need to get up again, we always had contact and i even informed the indonesian Embassy in Hong-Kong about this but she dont want to leave because she needet the money for here child at home in indonesia. one the last contacts we had, she told she is sick and very weak , but she has no time and money to go to a doctor , and suddently i dont get any answer anymore from here, maybe to take here mobile phone , ore maybe she died , ore i would say the worked here to death.. her name is sophia here email used to be sophia_kad@yahoo.com. i believe what she told me because i did know here very well and she never lyed to me. i hope she is well and just lost the phone ore phone number

]]> By: walter http://www.aboutindonesia.com/the-plight-indonesian-overseas-maids/comment-page-1/#comment-404 walter Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:48:46 +0000 http://www.aboutindonesia.com/?p=163#comment-404 I have bben working long time in Asia, Hong-Kong, Macau ,Singapore and so on, and i have talked with many Maids , from Indonesia and from the philippines, very few of this Maids are treaded as Human, most of them leave a bad life with there employer, and lots of them are forced to work 18 to 20 hours and sometimes even more. , and as a thank you the recieve shit food , and a place to sleep i would not even but my dog to sleep there. and the main reason why employers , i call them slavetraders and maybe even worst ,because of the criminal agenencys. the philippino maids na bit better off because the embassy,s take besser care for them, but the indonesian embassies dont care , this would be work. special in Hong-kong it is very bad , and nobody cares the chinese ,not all of them but a lot are just shit who miss use this maids and handle them like a piece of garbadge. it would be more than on the time to but this criminals who misshandle this poor girls like gabadge to be but in jail and for a long time ore force them to have the same life and let them work for 6 months under the same contitions as the but on this poor womens. I have bben working long time in Asia, Hong-Kong, Macau ,Singapore and so on,
and i have talked with many Maids , from Indonesia and from the philippines, very few of this Maids are treaded as Human, most of them leave a bad life with there employer, and lots of them are forced to work 18 to 20 hours and sometimes even more. , and as a thank you the recieve shit food , and a place to sleep i would not even but my dog to sleep there.
and the main reason why employers , i call them slavetraders and maybe even worst ,because of the criminal agenencys.
the philippino maids na bit better off because the embassy,s take besser care for them, but the indonesian embassies dont care , this would be work. special in Hong-kong it is very bad , and nobody cares the chinese ,not all of them but a lot are just shit who miss use this maids and handle them like a piece of garbadge.

it would be more than on the time to but this criminals who misshandle this poor girls like gabadge to be but in jail and for a long time ore force them to have the same life and let them work for 6 months under the same contitions as the but on this poor womens.

]]> By: Samantha http://www.aboutindonesia.com/the-plight-indonesian-overseas-maids/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Samantha Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:22:05 +0000 http://www.aboutindonesia.com/?p=163#comment-209 That's not true, my maid was not abused or anything else, she ran away because she want to go back to indonesia, she has been telling me that she misses her children and family badly...she know very well that if she goes back to the agent she will not be able to go back to indonesia so she went to the police and asked the police to send her to the consulate so she could be deported back to indonesia and because she left after the guarantee period, after 6 months, i have no replacement...the agent just wash their hands clean and said there's nothing they can do... That’s not true, my maid was not abused or anything else, she ran away because she want to go back to indonesia, she has been telling me that she misses her children and family badly…she know very well that if she goes back to the agent she will not be able to go back to indonesia so she went to the police and asked the police to send her to the consulate so she could be deported back to indonesia and because she left after the guarantee period, after 6 months, i have no replacement…the agent just wash their hands clean and said there’s nothing they can do…

]]> By: Canada provinces http://www.aboutindonesia.com/the-plight-indonesian-overseas-maids/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Canada provinces Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:29:58 +0000 http://www.aboutindonesia.com/?p=163#comment-168 Having lived my life in Brunei and Bangladesh, I noticed that the local Islamic law applies to overseas Muslim as well. Having lived my life in Brunei and Bangladesh, I noticed that the local Islamic law applies to overseas Muslim as well.

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