Berita Daily - Perennial abuse of maids – end of second chance for M’sia? (extracts):
![]()
![]()
It is a bombshell truth that some Malaysian employers have redefined cruelty, as seen from the brutality meted out to their domestic helpers.
In 2004, Malaysia was stunned with the revelation that an Indonesian domestic worker, Nirmala Bonat had suffered torture, scalded with boiling hot water and burnt with a hot iron by her employer, Yim Pek Ha. Yim is currrently serving 12 years in jail for causing grievous hurt to Nirmala.
In 2004, Malaysia was stunned with the revelation that an Indonesian domestic worker, Nirmala Bonat had suffered torture, scalded with boiling hot water and burnt with a hot iron by her employer, Yim Pek Ha. Yim is currrently serving 12 years in jail for causing grievous hurt to Nirmala.
Then in 2010, Hau Yuan Tyng was convicted of inflicting wounds on her domestic helper Siti Hajar using a hammer, scissors and scalding water.
The abuse continued with Indonesian citizen Suyanti allegedly slapped and punched every day by her employer Rozita Ali in 2016. She managed to escape and was found unconscious near a drain by a security guard. Her employer was charged with attempted murder.
 |
maid Suyanti allegedly slapped and punched every day by her employer Rozita Ali |
A furious Indonesia decided it was time to teach a recalcitrant Malaysia the much needed lesson – the former imposed a moratorium and pulled the plug on sending its domestic workers to Malaysia in 2009.
It was only after much pleading from Malaysia that the ban was lifted in 2011.
Malaysia, however, seems to have taken Indonesia’s goodwill for granted and ignored the much needed lessons brought on by the 2009 moratorium.
Indonesia’s news portal (Sindo News) recently reported that Jakarta is once again mulling a full stop to its nationals being sent to Malaysia as domestic workers following the recent death of Indonesian Adelina Lisao, 26, who was allegedly abused at her employer’s house in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
It was only after much pleading from Malaysia that the ban was lifted in 2011.
Malaysia, however, seems to have taken Indonesia’s goodwill for granted and ignored the much needed lessons brought on by the 2009 moratorium.
Indonesia’s news portal (Sindo News) recently reported that Jakarta is once again mulling a full stop to its nationals being sent to Malaysia as domestic workers following the recent death of Indonesian Adelina Lisao, 26, who was allegedly abused at her employer’s house in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
 |
Adelina Lisao (right) and her employer (left) |
Enough is enough. Let us stop employing maids from Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, etc, or anywhere else save from Malaysia itself.
We have demonstrated we are not responsible caring humane employers, and indeed as described above, have been and are exceedingly cruel to foreign hired help.
One word to describe us Malaysian employers - BASTARDS or if you're female BITCHES.
I've witnessed with my own two eyes and heard with my own two ears how unfeelingly arrogant and cruel some people have been to foreign maids, treating them not as human beings but as work animals.
And worse, they allowed their children to behave towards the maids like them their cruel parents, those bloody ill-mannered wicked brats.
Our cruelty has not been confined to one particular race among Malaysian employers, though frankly speaking, I personally have read more of Chinese employers being the c*b** culprits.
I am aware of even worse cruelty (unimaginable as this might sound) in Arab countries. Filipino maids have been the major victims while previously I have read of Rizana Nafeek, a young Sri Lankan teenager decapitated in Saudi Arabia for allegedly strangulating her employers' 4-month child when the truth was the infant accidentally choked on milk.
A Celebration of Women reported:
On 22 May 2005, while Rizana was feeding the child, he started choking. Panicking, she tried to soothe the child by rubbing his chest, neck and face, while shouting for help. Hearing her shouts the mother came running, but by that time the baby was either unconscious or dead. The family handed Rizana over to the police, accusing her of strangling the baby. At the police station there was no translator so she did not understand the charges brought against her. Rizana was made to sign a confession and later charges were filed in court of murder by strangulation.
Earlier she spent seven years in Saudi jails as she was accused, charged, convicted and sentenced to death for the alleged murder without any lawyer to represent her interests. Legal defence in those Arab countries would usually be bloody useless anyway.
 |
Beheading of Rizana Nafeek |
Rizana Nafeek was only 17 years old when she was charged with the alleged murder. The Saudi authorities ignored International law, accepted as binding by Saudi Arabia, that it is unlawful to execute someone who was under 18 years old when they allegedly committed a crime.
The Saudi government then showed its lack of diplomatic respect even when the President of Sri Lanka made a personal appeal for clemency. If the Americans had appealed those Arabs would have given in.
But I don't and can't accept the argument that in other countries the employers ill treated their maids far worse than Malaysians. I am only interested in a just, fair, kind and humane Malaysia.
Stop this employment scheme. If you want maids, hire locals. If you can't, tough luck. We MUST end our very shameful series of cruelty towards the very people who need our kindness most.
 |
Malaysian employers of foreign maids |