Applications to work in KL fall in NTT<\/p>\n
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang<\/p>\n
The abuse of Indonesian maid Nirmala Bonat has had a negative
\nimpact on local people in her home province, East Nusa Tenggara
\n(NTT), seeking similar jobs in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Labor recruitment agency PT Bina Rizki Kurnia, which
\ndispatched Nirmala to Malaysia on June 24 last year, confirmed on
\nTuesday a decrease in the number of local residents wanting to go
\nto the neighboring country to work.<\/p>\n
\"We were scheduled on Tuesday to send more workers to Malaysia
\nbut the management suddenly canceled because the level of
\ninterest of locals in becoming maids in Malaysia has decreased
\nsince the Nirmala abuse case,\" said Jhon Salmon, director of the
\nKupang, NTT, branch of Bina Rizki.<\/p>\n
He said the decision to cancel the departure of 10 Indonesian
\nworkers from the province was made pending the legal processing
\nof Nirmala's case in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
Apart from that, the number of prospective workers to be sent
\nby the company to the neighboring country failed to achieve the
\nquota of around 50 people, Salmon added.<\/p>\n
He stressed that the cancellation was not due to trauma among
\nprospective workers, who had registered themselves with PT Bina
\nRizki to participate in vocational training before being sent
\nabroad.<\/p>\n
PT Bina Rizki is an authorized recruitment agency registered
\nwith the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration.<\/p>\n
Salmon acknowledged that before the Nirmala abuse case
\nsurfaced last week, many people in East Nusa Tenggara were
\ninterested in seeking jobs in Malaysia via his company.<\/p>\n
The high level of interest was indicated in statistical data
\non those who had registered with the company and other
\nrecruitment agencies seeking work in Malaysia.<\/p>\n
\"Usually, they total 50 to 100 per departure. However, this
\ntime, it is very small, only 10 people. So, we have decided to
\ncancel their departure until the quota is filled,\" Salmon said.<\/p>\n
He believes that clarity in the legal processing of Nirmala's
\ncase by the Malaysian authorities would help restore the interest
\nof people in the country's eastern province to seek work there.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday, a Malaysian court charged Nirmala's employer,
\nYim Pek Ha, 35, with scalding the Indonesian domestic helper with
\nhot water and burning her with an iron, in one of the country's
\nworst maid abuse cases.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors reportedly demanded a sentence of 67 years in
\nprison.<\/p>\n
Yim pleaded not guilty to four charges of causing grievous
\nbodily harm to Nirmala at her luxury condominium in central Kuala
\nLumpur between January and May.<\/p>\n
Judge Akhtar Tahir denied Yim bail and ordered her to remain
\nin prison pending trial on July 26, a court official, speaking on
\ncustomary condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n
In charges read out in court, Yim was accused of using
\n\"dangerous weapons\" -- a hot iron and hot water -- to inflict
\ngrievous bodily harm on the maid on three occasions.<\/p>\n
The charges each carry a maximum jail term of 20 years and a
\nfine or whipping. A fourth charge accused Yim of beating Nirmala
\nwith a metal cup, and carries a jail term of up to seven years.<\/p>\n
However, Nirmala's parents, from Tuapakas village, Kualin
\nsubdistrict, South Timor Tengah regency, East Nusa Tenggara,
\ndemanded on Tuesday the death sentence or life imprisonment for
\nYim<\/p>\n
\"I, as Nirmala's mother, cannot accept the threat of an 80-
\nyear jail term for her (Yim). For me, a life sentence or the
\ndeath penalty would be most appropriate because the abuse of my
\ndaughter was very savage and inhuman,\" said Martha Bonat Tony,
\n36.<\/p>\n
She was speaking in Kupang before leaving for Kuala Lumpur via
\nJakarta on Tuesday along with her husband Daniel Bonat, 39.<\/p>\n
The alleged abuse sparked a national outrage in Malaysia and
\nIndonesia after newspapers printed front-page photographs earlier
\nlast week of the maid, showing burns and bruises over much of her
\nbody.<\/p>",
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