Refleksi: Keledai disinonimkan sebagai lambang kebodohan. Sekalipun demikian
ada ucapan yang mengatakan bahwa: "keledai tidak akan tersentuk dua kali pada
batu yang sama". Bayangkan saja keledai yang bodoh itu tidak akan tersentuk dua
kali pada batu yang sama, nah bagaimana dengan manusia Indonesia dengan TKWnya?
Pengiriman TKW ke Arab Saudia dipromosikan oleh Depertamen Tenaga Kerja Pak
Harto dibahwah pimpinan menteri Laksamana Sudomo. Pengiriman TKW ini sudah
berjalan lebih dari 20 tahun lalu. Sejak pengiriman pertama telah terjadi
berbagai masalah dengan TKW, ada yang diperkosa, dipukul, malah tidak dibayar
gaji dsb. Tiap tahun kekejaman lama timbul lagi, tetapi pemerintah Indonesia
agaknya tetap saja berlagak pilon dan perlakuan tidak adil terhadap TKW
berjalan terus. Apa latar belakang pemerintah Indoensia bertingkah laku
demikian sulit diperoleh keterangan, apakah ada konkalikong para petinggi
negara dengan kedok agama dibawah naungan departemen agama hanya bisa berupa
spekulasi saja.
Satu hal yang pasti dan patut menjadi catatan abadi ialah bahwa di Tanah Suci
tidak semua orang dan benda adalah suci.
Solusi terbaik dalam melindungi wanita Indonesia ialah dihentikan pengiriman
TKW ke Timur Tengah! Dengan dihentikan pengiriman TKW ini tidak berarti pintu
gerbang surga pun ditutup Alloh bagi kaumnya dari Indonesia.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=66981&d=15&m=7&y=2005
Friday, 15, July, 2005 (08, Jumada al-Thani, 1426)
More Than 500 Indonesian Maids Await Repatriation
M. Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Arab News
RIYADH, 15 July 2005 - More than 500 Indonesian maids are
currently stranded in Saudi Arabia awaiting repatriation. This includes about
300 housemaids, serving prison terms in jails across the Kingdom. Jakarta is
currently studying measures aimed at protecting the interests of Indonesians
working abroad.
"Some maids were arrested and sent to jail for serious
offences like theft, forgery and murder, but a large number of them were booked
for minor crimes," said M. Sukiarto, labor attache at the Indonesian Embassy,
yesterday. Sukiarto could not say when they will be released from the prison.
"There are over 200 maids stranded in safe houses alone in
Riyadh and Jeddah awaiting deportation." He said that the Indonesian diplomatic
missions had set up two temporary boarding facilities called "safe houses"
where runaway maids or female workers facing problems, are housed. The maids
are repatriated back to Jakarta when their cases are settled with the sponsors
and a formal clearance from Saudi government agencies is obtained.
In many cases in the past, Sukiarto said that the embassy
sought the intervention of the Saudi officials to settle the problems or
resolve legal complexities.
"A large number of our women workers, mainly those serving
prison terms inside the jails and reformatory centers of the Kingdom, are
granted royal clemency by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd every
year, enabling them to reunite with their families back home," said the embassy
official.
He said that the Indonesian Embassy received between 10 to 15
complaints a day about mistreatment, non-payment of salaries and sexual
harassment. More than 853 Indonesians complained of mistreatment by their
employers in Saudi Arabia last year alone. Nearly a quarter said they had not
been paid. Others complained of torture or maltreatment.
Unscrupulous private employers, recruitment agents and
sponsors are often blamed for such labor exploitation. There are nearly 600,000
Indonesian women workers in Saudi Arabia.
The embassy together with a few private organizations, is
also working to set up task force in nine Saudi cities to look after the female
workers.
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