Slavery continues to plague Indonesian migrant workers, JAKARTA POST.

Original Source: Emerging Markets Datafile

How tragic and terrible has been the violence against a great number of Indonesian women employed overseas this year! Not only were they harassed, physically abused or even raped but were also sent home without proper payment or traded from one employer to another.

Many women workers who had just arrived home from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Malaysia and Singapore said how they were insulted and beaten if they made mistakes in performing their daily tasks, how they had to work overtime without extra pay, how they were sexually harassed or raped by their male employers or their relatives and how they were physically attacked by their female employers after they had been forced to have sex with their male employers.

Behind "the success story" of most migrant workers, many have to endure brutality and undergo a form of slavery to gain 600 riyal per month in Saudi Arabia, or 300 ringgit in Malaysia.

The Association of Indonesian Migrant Workers (Kopbumi) in Jakarta recorded 76 workers who died or were killed during their employment between January and September 2003, while the …