She’s maid for only one chore.

JAKARTA: The fresh batch of In­­donesian maids bound for Malaysia will be trained in four household chores but will be employed to carry out only one task for their prospective bosses.
“If a maid is employed as a cook, she will only be tasked with chores related to cooking and will not be doing any other duties, such as baby-sitting or washing clothes,” said Indonesia’s Labour Placement Deve­lopment director-general Dr Reyna Usman.
The batch of 106 Indonesian maids are undergoing four skills training courses for 21 days that started yesterday.
They will be paid at least RM700 a month by their Malaysian employers.
This was concluded at the meeting of the Malaysia-Indonesian joint task force for the deployment, placement and protection of Indonesian maids at the Indonesian Manpower and Transmigration Ministry here yesterday.
Dr Reyna said the task force decided that the maids would be employed to do only one of the four household tasks for which they are being trained – as cooks, babysitters, caretakers of elderly people and housekeepers.
Dr Reyna said the deal concluded by the joint task force was expected to prevent recurrence of problems affecting maids and employers.
“If all this while, maids were not professional as they had to do all sort of duties, causing their employers to get angry, now their skills will be tailored to their jobs,” he added.
Indonesia will eventually send between 4,000 and 5,000 skilled maids a month to Malaysia, he said, adding most of them were currently being trained for specific skills in Surabaya, East Java and Bekasi, West Java.
He said in the initial stages, the maids would be trained by 12 of 176 Indonesian employment agencies while their placement with employers would be taken care of by five of 221 employment agencies in Malay­sia.
The deployment of maids from Indonesia was resumed after the Indonesian government withdrew its moratorium on sending maids to Malaysia on Dec 1 last year.
Indonesia imposed a freeze on the supply of Indonesian maids to Malaysia on June 26, 2009, following reports of cases of abuse by employers. – Bernama

tunku : she's maid for one chore only......fine but the salary should not be more than RM400. that would be very reasonable. just imagine only do one chore of work at home and you demand RM700? your food, accommodation plus your medical bill are taken care off by your employer. you want RM700 fine, buy your own food and pay rental for your room and pay for your medical expenses too.
i think government should reject these craps by the indonesian and start looking maids from other countries. bring it from anywhere, give them one month training for culture and language. they will work better than these indonesian maids.they will not run here and there too like the indonesian maids.