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June 24, 2009 18:10 PM
Muslims Maids Only For Muslim Families
KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 (Bernama)-- Pas Youth has called on the government to set down a regulation that Muslim maids from Indonesia or other countries are allowed to work only for Muslim families and non-Muslim families be allowed only non-Muslim maids.
The movement's chief, Nasrudin Hassan, in a statement today said the matter had been suggested several times by it as well as by several non-governmental organisations so that the issue of the denial of right to pray, fast, halal food, comfortable and clean dwelling, and fair wages could be resolved.
Nasrudin said if the problem was not resolved and allowed to persist it would sour ties between the peoples of Malaysia and Indonesia.
He cited several recent cases of abuse of Indonesian maids that led the Indonesian Minister for Human Resources and Transmigration, Erman Suparno, to suggest temporarily halting Indonesian maids coming to Malaysia
Pas Youth also urged the government to mete out heavy punishment on employers who were negligent or purposely hurt their maids physically, mentally and spiritually.
-- BERNAMA
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