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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