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JAKARTA (AFP) – Beaten, forced to eat animal faeces and chained to a dog cage – the abuse of an Indonesian maid highlights the government’s failure to protect domestic workers at home even as it moves to help those abroad, critics said. Siti Khotimah left her Central Java hometown for capital Jakarta last year when […]
Siti Khotimah faced months of torture by her employer who was recently jailed for four years for physical abuse.
Beaten, forced to eat animal faeces and chained to a dog cage -- the abuse of an Indonesian maid highlights the government's failure to protect domestic workers at home even as it moves to help those abroad, critics say."I hope the domestic workers' protection law will be passed immediately so there will be no other Khotimah," she said.
Under current legal framework, maids are not classified as workers, forcing them to operate in an unregulated economy
JAKARTA, Aug 10 — Beaten, forced to eat animal faeces and chained to a dog cage — the abuse of an Indonesian maid highlights the government’s failure to protect domestic...