Want China Times, CNA 2015-02-28
Indonesia plans to begin measures to stop sending domestic workers to Taiwan in 2017, as the Southeast Asian country is moving forward with a plan to stop sending domestic workers abroad in an effort to protect the country's dignity, according to an Indonesian official.
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| An Indonesia domestic worker and the elderly man she cares for at a Chinese New Year event, Feb. 8. (File photo/Yang Han-sheng) |
Indonesia plans to begin measures to stop sending domestic workers to Taiwan in 2017, as the Southeast Asian country is moving forward with a plan to stop sending domestic workers abroad in an effort to protect the country's dignity, according to an Indonesian official.
To move
forward with President Joko Widodo's policy of preventing any more Indonesians
from working abroad as domestic workers, Nusron Wahid–head of the Agency of
Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers–said his country will
stop sending domestic workers to the Middle East, starting this year, as the
first step.
From 2017,
it will gradually stop sending domestic workers to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia,
Singapore, Macau and other countries and territories in the Asia-Pacific
region, he said Wednesday during an interview with Indonesian media
Liputan6.com.
Rather than
sending domestic workers overseas, he said, Indonesia will begin exporting
trained and skilled workers. To that end, he said, his government is preparing
to provide training programs to help give them skills.
He said he
believes this policy will help Indonesian migrant workers get better salaries.
He was
appointed after Widodo was inaugurated as Indonesia's new president in October.
The new
government has made improving the rights and benefits of migrant workers and
their overall working conditions one of its top administrative priorities.
During an
interview with CNA in December, the official said he understands Taiwan's need
for domestic helpers from Indonesia and suggested a solution to maintain the
flow of workers in informal sectors.
Taiwan
should comprehensively raise wages for Indonesian domestic helpers based on its
own minimum wage regulations, and work hours should be limited to a level
consistent with local law, he said, adding that domestic helpers should not
live under the same roof as their employers but should be housed in
dormitories.
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