Sumatra maid agencies mull lowering fees
The StarOnline,Thursday April 15, 2010
MEDAN: Maid agencies in Sumatera will be meeting on Saturday to discuss lowering the cost of sending Indonesian maids to Malaysia. A spokesman for the agencies, Asa Binsar, said the cost could be less if the maids were sourced from Sumatera.
“However, if we have to source the maids from Java, there will not be much difference in terms of cost,” he told Bernama yesterday. He said this after the representatives of 35 Sumatran maid agencies had a meeting with Malaysian ambasador to Indonesia Datuk Syed Munshe Afdzaruddin Syed Hassan at the Malaysian Consul-General’s Office here.
Also present was Malaysia’s Consul-General here Norlin Othman. Presently, it costs up to RM8,000 to hire an Indonesian maid, which has become a bone of contention between the two countries who are currently in talks to draw up a memorandum to iron out the issue.
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