We refer to the Maid Agency Fee hike proposal to RM 8,000 per Indonesian Maid placement by the President of Persatuan Pekerja Asing on June 24, 2008.PAPA President had deceived the Malaysia Public by comparing the Maid salary in Hong Kong and Taiwan because all the maids that work in these two countries had to go through intensive training and well prepared to carry out the household Chaos. It is wrong to compare Apple for an orange!
Maids heading to Malaysia were not properly trained, they were traded like a human commodity among the Indonesian Agents and Malaysia Agents; the nature of market demand and supply often prevails in PAPA president’s media statement.
In the similar issue, the Press Statement issued by the Malaysian Ambassador, Dato’ Zainal Abidin Zain in supporting such a proposal in view of the increment of the recruitment cost and levy which should cost more than RM 3,700.
The Media statement issued by Malaysia Ambassador that hiring direct from Indonesia is an act of Human Trafficking is grossly misleading. It has the ill intention to defy the rights of employers to employ the right workers while denying the intelligence of workers to get the best deals.
The basis of Human trafficking must involved the motive of exploitations and profiteering from the victims. Only Malaysia Agents fit this description for the exorbitant fees imposed while oppressing the salary of the Maids.
It is timely for Malaysian Foreign ministry to seriously investigate the possible involvement of our foreign missions in the organized human trafficking via workers agents while the Ambassador may have been confused about the Human trafficking matter and grossly ignored the pleas of Malaysia women illegally trafficked and stranded in Indonesia
We at Migrant Care, Jakarta wish to inform the Malaysia employers and public that:
Proposal of PAPA to increase the Maid agency fees to RM 8,000 is grossly unfounded and highly exploitative and unfair to the potential employers.
The Official cost involved in the recruitment of the Indonesian Maid is as follows:
Passport
100.00
Pemeriksaan Kesihatan
80.00
Kos Latihan 4 -6 minggu
200.00
Tenpat Tinggal dan makan waktu Latihan
200.00
Hantar jemput fdari Kampung
250.00
Tiket Pesawat ke Malaysia
300.00
Keuntungan Agen Indonesia
300.00
Kos Sponsor
600.00
Lain-lain
150.00
Jumlah
2,180.00
Jumlah yang diabayar Majikan
8,000.00
Keuntungan yang di ambil Agen Malaysia
5,820.00
The exorbitant charges imposed by Malaysian agents who only provide Data to the end-users do not deserve such a huge profit margin the official cost of hiring is only RM 2,180 per maid while Gross profit distributed among the Human supply chains and corruption is RM 5,820 per person.
The Maid salary has been stagnant at RM 450 to RM 500 per months since 2005 but the Agency fees had increased from RM 3,500 to RM 6,000; It is rational to asked why pay more to the human Bio-data traders while the workers still grossly underpaid and far below the Poverty line income of RM 800 per month.
Rational Employers should prefer to pay the higher salary to the well trained maid rather than those recruited from very remote village and not properly trained. Its timely to ask ourselves if it is fair to pay 15 months of the salary to the agents who sell bio-data or increase the salary to attract better trained Maids ?
Malaysia Anti Corruption Agency should probe into the huge hidden cost in the process of hiring Indonesian maids that may involved Malaysia Embassy in Jakarta and Malaysia Immigration department who are largely responsible for the in take of foreign workers from Indonesia.
The in depth study of South East Asia migration history has proven that the biggest organized Human trafficking syndicates are the licensed and legalized employment agents in Indonesia and Malaysia
Jakarta, Thursday, June 26, 2008
ANIS HIDAYAH (Executive Director) +6281578722874
WAHYU SUSILO (Policy Analyst) +628129307964
ALEX ONG (Malaysia Representative) +60163121201
Alex Ong
Migrant CARE
Perhimpunan Indonesia untuk Buruh Migran Berdaulat
(Member of Migrant Forum in Asia and International NGO
Platform on Migrant Workers’ Convention)
Jl. Pulo Asem I C No 15 RT 015 RW 001 Jati,
Jakarta Timur 13220 Indonesia
Telp/Fax: +62 21 4752803
E-mail: alexmigrantc…@gmail.com
migrantc…@nusa.or.id
Website: www.buruhmigranberdaulat.blogspot.com
Yes, AGENSI PEKERJAAN T&L (Maid Agency T&L) in BANDAR PUTERI PUCHONG IS A DISHONEST MAID AGENCY. Please avoid this Maid Agency.
When I approach this company to get a new maid, we were given some biodatas to choose from. At that time, there was another customer who is making a big noise because he did not get a maid as promised. We ask the sales personnel what is the big fuss, she replied that the maid that the person applied are not able to come and he rejected alternative maid biodatas.
We then proceed to pay the deposit for the maid that we have chosen. WHAT A WRONG DECISION IT WAS!!! We were promised that the maid will arrive in 3 months (max). They mentioned that there are no cases that the maid will come beyond 3 months.
WHAT A LIE BY AGENSI PEKERJAAN T&L IN BANDAR PUTERI PUCHONG!!!
After 3 months, we enquiry about the maid and we were told the maid that we chosen is not available. When we asked for alternative biodatas, we were told that there were no biodatas for us to choose. They ask us to apply for refund. The sales personnel promised us full refund, which is RM 2,500-00.
When we get the refund (after about 1.5 months later), we only get RM 2,200-00. They said they deduct RM 300.00 for administration fee to submit the application to the government. When I ask for their proof of submission, they finally said that they did not submit it. WHAT A SHAME!
AGENSI PEKERJAAN T&L cheats people of the administration fee by doing nothing! Now I understand why the customer earlier is very upset.
IN MALAYSIA, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH CONSUMER PROTECTION AND MAID AGENCIES ARE MAKING MONEY THROUGH THESE NEW LAWS LOOPHOLE!
Please avoid AGENSI PEKERJAAN T&L TO AVOID GETTING CHEATED!!! Please spread the news to your friends so that they will not become the next victim.
We expect maid agency to be honest in their dealing.
POSTED BY ANGRY VICTIM