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Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:59am
©The New Straits Times (Used by permission)
by Ili Liyana Mokhtar

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia-Indonesia joint task force will meet today to iron out details of the memorandum of understanding on domestic maids signed between both governments in Bandung on May 30.

Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan declined to reveal details of the meeting, urging all quarters to wait for the outcome instead.

"The details are being finalised and once this is done, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam and his counterpart will do the necessary," she told reporters after launching the Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad conference and exhibition, here, yesterday.

It was reported that Indonesia would only start sending maids here once all the protocols agreed upon in the MoU are in force. 

The conditions include allowing maids a day off a week and letting them retain possession of their passports as stipulated by international law.

On Sunday, Malaysian National Association of Employment and Indonesian Maid Agencies Association (Gabungan Pengusaha Profesi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia -- GaproTki) said they were confident that the republic would lift the freeze on maids by the year-end.

The Indonesian government had imposed a freeze on sending maids to Malaysia in June 2009, following numerous complaints of maids allegedly being abused by employers.

Prior to the ban, about 3,000 Indonesian maids were sent to Malaysia every month.

Apart from Indonesia, Malaysians can also employ maids from Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam and Laos.

On another matter, Maznah urged job-seekers to enhance their skills by enrolling in training programmes. 

"At present, only about 28 per cent of the workforce is considered highly skilled. This has to be increased to between 45 and 50 per cent over the next 10 years."
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