Pembantu rumah

Thus is a piece of newspaper cutting from Utusan showing the agreement btw Malaysian Government and Indonesian on the terms and roles of future amah, or aka as Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (TKI). They have agreed that amah can only do 4 types of roles respectively and cannot mix up do all those tasks together which is jaga orang tua, jaga baby, kemas rumah and memasak.

Personally i oppose this agreement. The original purpose of getting amah for one particular household is to do anything that requires help. How can you quantify help based on work task? If you differentiate the tasks and require amah to perform her duty based on roles, then it won't really fulfil the original objective already. Who wants a helper to help them one particular role? Even the secreatary will do all kinda work for her boss. Idiot tul laa.. Not to mention also here that the salary per month for a single amah is RM700, although our governement denies that the RM700 is not part of the bilateral agreement btw both goverments.




Anyway, i really wonder whether what they claim here about the cost of getting amah is just RM4,511 plus additional deposit of RM1,800. I heard last time the total cost is somewhere around RM8K.