Indonesian policy to scrap migrant worker placement fees effective July 15

The policy will include Indonesian domestic workers. -ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A new policy that exempts Indonesian migrant workers in 10 job sectors from hefty placement fees which keep them in debt for months, and which was supposed to come into effect on Jan 15, will now be enacted on July 15 by the Indonesian government.

This will cover, among others, Indonesian domestic workers, of whom around 127,000 work in Singapore, accounting for roughly half of all foreign domestic workers here.