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Fate of migrant
workers in Singapore

From Warta Kota

The year 2003 saw as many as 20 Indonesian female migrant
workers in Singapore fall to their deaths from high-rise
apartments where they worked, as was revealed by Fachry Sulaiman,
a high-ranking official at the Indonesian Embassy there.

How tragic their destinies were, working in distant countries
to seek a better life while leaving their families behind hoping
that they would succeed.

The tragic account of theirs is only part of a myriad of
problems faced by female migrants working as domestic helpers
overseas.

The manpower ministry should have been responsible for them
and the government should have investigated their deaths to
determine whether they were really accidental.

SUBROTO
Jakarta