Maid suspected of stealing dies in police station

A 42-year-old maid who was about to give her statement to the police after being accused of stealing from her employer collapsed and died at the Kampung Raja police station here at around 2.30pm today.

Acording to a source, the Indonesian maid from Java had been employed by a teacher in Kampung Seberang Jaya here since May 12 to look after his elderly mother.

However, the teacher suspected her of stealing after the family lost RM5,000.

The employer brought her along to the police station when he lodged a report at the Kampung Raja police station at 2.30pm.

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Malaysia to still get Indonesian maids, but not as live-ins after 2017

Indonesia will continue to send housemaids to Malaysia after 2017 but employed by agencies which will house them and contract them to work in households under a new proposal from Jakarta to prevent abuse.

The Indonesian Embassy labour attache in Kuala Lumpur, Agus Triyanto, told The Malaysian Insider that the move was in line with the Indonesian Domestic Worker Roadmap 2017.

“This will mean the maids will live outside the employer's house. They will only do housework and nothing else.

“We want to put a halt to 'live-in' maids and introduce a 'live-out' system to protect our people against abuse from employers,” Agus said, clarifying reports that Indonesia will no longer send maids to Malaysia after 2017.

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No more Indonesian maids from 2017

Indonesia will stop sending its people abroad to work as maids by 2017, said Indonesian consul-general in Kuching Djoko Harjanto.

“The Manpower Ministry had made a statement about this. Not only no more export of domestic helpers to Malaysia – to everywhere,” he was reported as saying in The Borneo Post at his Hari Raya open house in Kuching on Thursday.

He pointed out that there was a decrease in Indonesian workers in Kuching compared to previous years. There are now about 100,000 to 200,000 Indonesia workers in Sarawak, with most in oil pal estates.

“This is because in Indonesia, there will be more oil palm plantations. They also need workers. Last time it was hard to find a job there so many came here to work," he said.

He noted that while the malaysian government had fixed the minium wages of RM800, some employers still did not heed the directive and shortchanged their employees.

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Cost of hiring Indonesian maids upped to RM8,000, Govt announces

The Government has announced it will now cost RM8,000 to hire an Indonesian domestic helper.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who chaired the Cabinet Committee on Foreign Worker and Illegal Immigrants, said that the new rate was decided after considering all costs incurred in both countries.

"The RM8,000 was decided after considering the training cost of at least 200 hours, travel documentation, food and accommodation before being transferred to new employers, traveling costs, medical check-ups as well as payment to the respective governmental agencies from both countries," he said in Parliament on Monday.

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Police rescue abducted baby

Rafidah Mohamed (right) and Tunisah Kassim are reunited with Putri Nurqaleesya Ixara Wan Mohammad as Wan Mohammad Farid looks on

POLICE rescued an 8-month-old baby girl, some 30 hours after she was abducted from her home in Johor by her Indonesian maid.

A police party raided a double-storey house in Taman Seri Jenjarom, here, on Monday afternoon where they found the baby.

Kuala Langat deputy police chief Deputy Superintendent Rizani Che Ismail said initial investigations revealed that the 24-year-old maid from Probolinggo, East Java, had fled her employer's house in Taman Impian Emas, Skudai about 6am on Sunday.

Death sentence upheld in Muntik's murder

The Court of Appeal here today upheld the conviction and death sentence handed down by the Shah Alam High Court two years ago on a night market trader for the murder of Indonesian maid, Muntik Bani.