Kikim, Another Indonesian Housemaid Killed by Her Employer in Saudi Arabia

          Kikim Komalasari, 23 years old, was tortured and raped before she was killed and her body was founded in a rubbish dump. Moreover, Sumiati, 23 years old, was tortured until her mouth is snipped by her employer.  However, it’s been 10 days since smelled by media and her employer is just under arrested by the Arabian police today. It is very sad and disappointed to hear how late their action and less protection of Human Rights implemented there.

          I can’t imagine how come people conduct it easily and without feeling any guilty. It’s like we are back to Fir’awn era when slavery grind was still permitted and legalized. Recently, many Media in Indonesia critic the government of Saudi Arabian which doesn’t give Human Rights protection to Indonesian Labor settled in the country. This issue actually has emerged to public few years ago. Indonesian society also pushes Indonesian Government to improve protection to its citizen working there. There is a mutual advantage of hiring Indonesian labors, indeed, either by the Saudi Arabian or Indonesian. So, it is the main responsibility they must focus, serve labor welfare of security life. 

          There are 5.563 troublesome Indonesian housemaids (most of them are women) there. All of them gets maltreatment, unreasonably workplace, sexual harassment and unpaid. Possibility, some workers are submitted illegal and by manipulated their age, skill, and graduation.  

          This situation reminds me to essential criteria of recruiting staff. Good communication ability, high intelligent & intellectual of thinking, have a good ability and high skill as needed are the main qualification of what a candidate must need. “Put a man in a right time and a right place” is the common sentence used by an HR. And even, new qualified staff still need induction training and some training to adapt the cultural organization and his/her next responsibilities.

         The operational organization, moreover, must refer to legal Manpower Act by the government, its organization, and get approval from boards of labors, companies, and the government. Welfare to employees, indeed, is the basic of their track and vision.   

          Today, Indonesian government will strictly send its citizens to work abroad, especially to uneducated persons. Moreover, the government will prioritize to give a certified skill to self-defense and mobile phone to them.   

          Perhaps, this issue will be solved soon. Indonesia as the third biggest population in the world is rich by natural resources and even, 

Prof. Arysio Santos in his book “ATLANTIS; the Lost Continent Finally Found”  claims that this is Indonesia. 











The government should be able to maintain those assets and improving human resource of its society.