Maid ban will hit Singapore hard

Learning the right stuff: Singapore bound trainee maids having practical lessons on taking care of the elderly and babies at the PT Dafa Putra Jaya training centre in Semarang, Central Java.

A POTENTIAL ban on Indonesian maids working overseas will have a major impact on Singapore, which depends heavily on Indonesia for domestic help, said maid agents here.

There are 125,000 Indonesian maids in Singapore, based on Indonesian Embassy estimates, making up about half of the 218,300 domestic worker population here.