[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Planned training center for maids draws protests
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Planned training center for maids draws protests
Tb. Arie Rukmantara, The Jakarta Post/Jakarta
Activists and labor exporters dismissed on Tuesday a plan by a Singaporean
company to establish a training center for maids in Indonesia, saying it would
largely serve the interests of employers rather than Indonesian overseas
workers.
Such a center would only commercialize its training programs and would
therefore impose more financial burden on Indonesian maids wanting to work
overseas, said Wijaksana, an activist of Jurnal Perempuan -- a non-governmental
organization that advocates the rights of women domestic workers.
"The training center would merely focus on improving skills but avoid talking
about the risks of working abroad," he told The Jakarta Post.
Nor would the planned center provide adequate information on workers'
protection and safety, he added.
A Singaporean company, Homemaker, had announced its plan to set up schools in
Indonesia and the Philippines to prepare "custom-trained maids" before they
took jobs in the city state.
"We want maids with the right attitude and aptitude," Alvin Kor, director of
the firm, told The Straits Times as reported by DPA.
The company said it would open a center in Jakarta next month and in the
Philippines in January 2006.
The maids will spend two months at the center learning about housekeeping and
looking after infants and the elderly. They will also learn safety tips and how
to handle chemicals.
According to the company, Indonesia and the Philippines are the primary sources
of the 160,000 domestic helpers in Singapore. Others come from Thailand, Sri
Lanka and India.
The plan came amid reports of local training centers that are ineffective in
improving the skills of its maids. This has partly been blamed for the problems
they encounter overseas.
Saleh Al Waini, who chairs the advisory board of the Association of Indonesian
Labor Recruitment Companies, accused the Singaporean company of trying to take
over the job of training from domestic firms.
"We have a large number of such centers here. Why do they (Homemaker) need to
teach skills that we already train people in?" he told the Post.
Saleh suggested that Singaporean labor recruitment companies focus more on
efforts to ensure clear salary mechanisms and scrap recruitment fees imposed on
Indonesian domestic workers.
"They should abolish discriminative treatment in terms of salaries, as
Indonesian workers are paid less than their Philippine counterparts. They have
also to start forcing Singaporean employers to pay the recruitment fees as
practiced in Malaysia," he said.
Wijaksana said he was worried that the training center would charge prospective
maids to pay for its overhead costs.
"This kind of center should be free of charge. It should not charge any
operational costs to migrant domestic workers because they already spend
millions of rupiah to arrange their work documents," he said.
Indonesian domestic migrant workers pay millions of rupiah for passports, work
permits, training fees and various illegal fees to be able to work abroad.
Despite the high costs imposed on them, many often return home without any
earnings. Some have even lost their lives or ended up in prison.
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