PETALING JAYA: After a prolonged back and forth on the Indonesian domestic worker issue, the republic is again having second thoughts about sending its workers here, claiming that many of its citizens were being smuggled into Malaysia to work as maids.
Despite a RM15,000 price cap, desperate employers getting domestic helpers from Indonesia are being charged as high as RM28,000. Agencies say there are ‘hidden costs’ but the Indonesian ambassador here warns those overcharging may be blacklisted.