Garut bans migrant workers
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 12/15/2010
The Garut administration has imposed a temporary ban restricting people from the city from working as maids in Saudi Arabia or Malaysia.
“I feel very sorry for the abused migrant workers. Our nation’s dignity has been trampled,” said Garut Regent Aceng H. M. Fikri in Garut, West Java, on Wednesday, Tempointeraktif.com reported.
Aceng said he had learned about the poor conditions faced by Indonesian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia during his recent hajj.
This year, the local government reported two cases of Indonesian migrant workers who were missing in Saudi Arabia.
From 2005 to 2010, 3,186 people from Gaurt went abroad to work as migrant workers, 95 percent of them traveling to the Middle East to work as domestic maids.
The suspension will apply to those working as domestic helpers or in the informal sector, Aceng said.
He said the suspension was a reaction to the poor treatment of Indonesian workers in both countries.
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