Another Migrant Worker Returns a Victim of Violence
An Indonesian migrant worker prepared to be sent to Saudi Arabia, covers her face during an inspection by the police in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, in this file photo taken on June 22, 2011. (EPA Photo/Mast Irham)
Bandung. Another Indonesian migrant worker has emerged as a victim of violence during her time in Saudi Arabia, where she worked as a maid before abruptly returning to her home in Indramayu, West Java, in January.
Tati, who left her hometown for Saudi Arabia in October 2010, said her employer never paid her monthly salary during her one-and-a-half years of employment, and that she often suffered from beatings.
"She often called asking for my help, because she wanted to go home after being beaten several times," Tati's husband Carla told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday.
In 2012, after two years of working without a salary, the 26-year-old approached her employers to ask for her monthly payments. The entire family, including the children, allegedly responded by attacking Tati, beating her so severely that she fell into a coma.
Tati woke up in the local hospital covered in bruises, her limbs paralyzed from the brutal physical assault.
"I knew of her situation from her friend, who is also a domestic worker; she called me," Carla said, adding his wife ended up staying in the hospital for two years, without appropriate medical treatments or help from the Indonesian government.
Carla also said Tati was not sure whether her employers have been reported to the local authorities for the attack.
"After the beating, she was hospitalized and couldn't work," he said.
Tati eventually returned to Indonesia in January, but her husband said he did not know how she got home, or who had made the travel arrangements.
Unfortunately, Tati, who was still suffering from injuries she sustained during the attack, was unable to seek immediate medical attention due to financial constraints.
"A wound on her backside only got worse, as if there is a hole, and you can even see her bone," Carla said, adding that he had sought help from Berkah Guna, the company responsible for sending Tati to Saudi Arabia, to no avail.
A local non-governmental organization eventually stepped forward to take Tati to the hospital.
"It was only last night that my wife was taken to the Indramayu General Hospital. I hope the government will offer help, and the people of Indonesia can pray for my wife," Carla said.
Netty Prasetiyani Heryawan, chairwoman of the West Java Integrated Service Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children, vowed to seek help from the West Java Manpower Office to investigate the agency that had sent Tati abroad.
"We call on the authorities to impose strict actions on the company or individuals proven to be involved in this case; starting from the recruiters to those who arranged her departure, and so on," she told the Jakarta Globe.
Netty said she has asked various government agencies to help in overseeing Tati's treatment, emphasizing that the domestic worker's medical expenses should be covered by her agency.
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