The policy will include Indonesian domestic workers. -ST FILE SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A new policy that exempts Indonesian migrant workers in 10 job sectors from hefty placement fees which keep them in debt for months, and which was supposed to come into effect on Jan 15, will now be enacted on July 15 by the Indonesian government. This will cover, among others, Indonesian domestic workers, of whom around 127,000 work in Singapore, accounting for roughly half of all foreign domestic workers here. Freddy Panggabean, acting deputy for placement and protection in Asia and Africa regions at BP2MI - the state agency in charge of migrant worker protection - told The Straits times on Tuesday (March 16) that many provincial governments were not prepared to cover the training costs of the workers, which form part of placement fees, hence the delay in enacting the policy.