Indonesian Domestic Workers

Beaten, forced to eat animal faeces and chained to a dog cage -- the abuse of an Indonesian maid highlights the government's failure to protect domestic workers at home even as it moves to help those abroad, critics say.

Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 Middle Eastern countries, reports said today, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded an Indonesian domestic worker who knifed to death a Saudi woman described in press reports as her employer.

A Hong Kong woman who was found guilty of beating and starving her Indonesian maid and keeping her prisoner faces up to seven years in prison when she appears in court for sentencing today.

Hong Kong police on Tuesday interviewed an Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her employer, who is now under arrest in the Chinese city, as Indonesia's president phoned the domestic worker to express his sorrow at the "tragedy".

Beaten, forced to eat animal faeces and chained to a dog cage -- the abuse of an Indonesian maid highlights the government's failure to protect domestic workers at home even as it moves to help those abroad, critics say.

Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 Middle Eastern countries, reports said today, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded an Indonesian domestic worker who knifed to death a Saudi woman described in press reports as her employer.

A Hong Kong woman who was found guilty of beating and starving her Indonesian maid and keeping her prisoner faces up to seven years in prison when she appears in court for sentencing today.

Hong Kong police on Tuesday interviewed an Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her employer, who is now under arrest in the Chinese city, as Indonesia's president phoned the domestic worker to express his sorrow at the "tragedy".