Maid mania?

Do we really need maids? I've heard this so many times, "It's a problem to have one and it's also a problem without one". And now there is this big 'hoo hah thingy' going on about maids...

Maid suspension by Indonesian government? Sounds serious! Reasons? Their people are being mistreated in our country?

Yes, right. There have been many complaints that Malaysian employers have been mistreating their maids. Salary not paid? Physical abuse? Verbal abuse? Mental abuse? To avoid all these from recurring, their government has decided to freeze all maids applications to our country unless our government can assure or guarantee that all these will not happen again. Sounds good? Or is it too good to be true? Can they pause and think for a while?

What about us? The employers? Are we not also subjected to mental, verbal and physical abuse by some of the maids? All those cases of run away maids, theft, robbery, child abuse, etc are not new and could be more than we can account for. And what guarantee do we get? Can the Indonesia government guarantee us from such abuses?

I think by stopping their people from coming here legally is not the answer to this problem. In fact it could create more problem. People could be jobless and many might choose to come in illegally. And what will happen then...you might be able to guess.

Someone should come up with a better suggestion
and try settling this amicably?