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Southeast Asia
Indonesian NGOs Seek Ban on Maid Export
2003-11-01
Some 60 Indonesian maids will be repatriated to Jakarta in the next few days amid growing protests from a number of Indonesian NGOs about the treatment of maids in the Gulf. “Nearly 60 maids will be repatriated to Indonesia in a few days,” said Tumpal Martua Hutasuhut, head of consular affairs at the Indonesian Embassy here on Thursday. “Last year, 3,610 maids who filed harassment claims against their employers were sent back to Indonesia after they ran away and took shelter at a safe house belonging to the embassy.”
Presumably these are Muslim maids? .com, can you verify? I.e., they're members of the Master Religion, but not members of the Master Race or the Master Sex...
The diplomat said a number of NGOs in Indonesia protested against the growing number of abuse and maltreatment cases. They include Nahdhatul Ulema (NU), the Center for Indonesian Immigrant Workers, the Forum for Indonesian Migrant Workers (FWBMI), Konsorsium Pembela Buruh Migran Indonesia and the Committee Advocacy for Indonesian Migrant Workers.
Sounds pretty much unanimous...
A migrant workers’ institute affiliated with NU has called on the Indonesian government to immediately terminate selling the export of female workers to the Middle East. A 19-member strong NU team has urged the government at least to establish bilateral ties with countries receiving Indonesian workers, mostly in the Middle East, and dispatch more labor attaches and police liaison officers to handle cases involving workers,” an NU report said. Tumpal said many migrant workers, especially maids, suffer harassment, violence and sexual abuse. But he said 60 percent of cases of runaway maids involved unpaid salaries and only five percent involved sexual abuse at the hands of the employers.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#3  Egyptian men have a notorious facination with young men.

It's sad that countries like the Philipines would allow their citizens to be prostituted in this way, but the cash flow probably keeps the Governemtn of the Phillipines quiet.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-11-1 9:52:55 PM  

#2  .com, a buddy of mine trained w/the egyptians on some joint training op we were doing w/them a while back. He said a lot of the 'rab commanders had 'man servants', -clean their tents, polish their boots, make their chow & crap like that. Apparently, they were also passing around these 16 yr old boys for pleasure. Pretty f*ckin gross, I thought my bud was full of it but he swears to God it's true. So there you go.
Posted by: Jarhead   2003-11-1 8:38:52 PM  

#1  Those from Indo would probably be Muslims. Note that only Saudis can have female maids, officially. This is absolutely true within Dhahran Camp - everyone else has to use "house boys" which is a real let-down. Outside of the camp, in the shit, you can get a female maid if you live in a compound. I had one who came twice a week - "Mimi" - she was from Ehtiopia. Cooked food that put Mexican to shame, certainly in terms of the heat generated.

Back to Saudi, I doubt his percentages about sex-related problems. I would only believe they're true if the maids aren't reporting most cases of sexual abuse, which may be the case. If they're Muslim women, then they prolly are afraid to report it. ALL of the Saudi men I knew are fucked up in this area and would abuse them if they wanted. ALL of them.

In '92-'93 I lived in a regular apartment building in Al Khobar. In the shit. This was right after the end of Gulf I - and while the no-fly was ramping up. We would sit on the roof and, since we were only about 1/2 mile from the end of Dhahran Air Base's main runway, we'd watch the no-fly air pkgs depart... Air cap first, then the weasels, then the mud-movers. One night, we heard what sounded like a cat - in distress. We looked all over the roof. We finally found out what it was: there was an apartment entrace on the roof for the penthouse apartment. It was padlocked - from the outside. There was a woman in there crying and keening. We couldn't get in and she just wailed louder when we asked her what was wrong - so went down to the bldg "Mgr" to find out WTF was going on. He told us that we should forget it and say nothing. When we threatened to kick his ass and break the lock off, he told us. It was the owner's apartment for when he was in town - he lived in Riaydh. This was a Phillipino nurse he had, for all intents and purposes, kidnapped. She had not "cooperated" so he was punishing her. He had gone back to Riyadh for a few days to let her think it over. He had left her locked up with only water and rice to cook - those were his orders to the Mgr. We went ballistic and threatened to call the police if the Mgr didn't get her out of there. He got on the phone and the owner showed up several hours later, in the middle of the night, and the next day she was gone. So even this moron, who owned many buildings so was connected, was afraid of being confronted with such an act.

There are other stories I could tell, but this is the only one I know first-hand to be factual. We never heard anything from that apartment again - and I never saw the owner, though I lived there for over a year. The Saudis have zero respect for infidels - and less for women. Even their own.

Half of the population of this planet should rise up and cut these cretins down - mebbe Lorenna Bobbit should be brought out of retirement and enlisted as our #1 weapon against the jihadis.
Posted by: .com   2003-11-1 3:02:35 PM  

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