Forking out more for Indonesian maids

PETALING JAYA: Desperate Malay­sian employers are forking out almost double of what they should be paying – between RM14,000 and RM15,000 in agency fees and others – for an Indonesian domestic worker.

And the situation will get worse now that the visa fee for Indonesian workers coming to Malaysia has gone up by about 15-fold since last month, claimed the Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies (Papa).