Sejak kebelakangan ini isu amah atau pembantu rumah dari Indonesia nampaknya akan menjadi hangat. dengan taktik membuli orang Jawa Indonesia kepada orang Melayu di Malaysia seperti zaman dulu2 mereka nak buli orang Melaka, namun kebijaksanaan orang2 Melaka berjaya membuat pakatan atau 'political alliance' melalui perkahwinan dengan negara2 dalam kerajaan Demaq dan Sumatera.
Kali ini ini pegawai Indon sudah mahu uji kebijaksanaan orang Melayu bila kesana berniaga atau di membawa mereka kesini untuk menjadi Amah.
Dengan gaji RM700 sama denga gaji mereka di kedai mamak (kedai mamak Craven bayar RM1200), - ini macam tak hendak bagi mereka berkerja di Malaysia, gayanya. Kita perlu lebih waras. Mengapa tidak sahaja kita berpakat sesama isteri kesayangan kita untuk sahaja menikah dan menjadikan amah2 ini isteri yang sah.
Kita tidak perlu bayar bermacam2 menerusi agen. Dan kita boleh pilih yang cantik2 dan yang gebu2.
Sama juga kalau ingin berniaga di Indonesia. Kita mesti sediakan USD250,000 untuk simpanan dalam bank sebelum ingin membuka syarikat di Indonesia.
Lebih dari itu kita mesti ada partner yang boleh dipercayai. Samada rumusan dari Indonesia ini adalah terbit dari kebodoh-sombongan mereka yang tidak putus2, atau mereka ingin sangat membuli sama kita orang Melayu.
Hanya tinggal satu cara sahaja mereka belum boleh kawal terhadap kita, iaitu senjata kahwin yang pernah digunakan sebagai senjata keamanan manusia sejagat.
Bayangkan seperti diatas. Tenung lama2 dan Pakat2 lah dengan isteri, kerana Kemungkinan anda akan dapat yang ini:
Kita lihat apa pendapat abang Bujai kita.!
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We are so hard up for Indon maids!
Indonesia asked RM700 per month for their maids. Like it or not, we need to haggle. However, I believe we are going to lose. Why? We are so hard up for them!
To Human Resource Minister, why don't you and your officers find other avenues to solve this 'maids' problem, rather than having to play beggar to Indonesia.
What is the role of 'Jabatan Tenaga Manusia' or JTM under the ministry? At the same time, we have so many
learning institutes to provide local students with training in various disciplines, especially technical and services.
Why can't we consider setting up a special academy to train locals as maids? We won't regret having to pay them between RM700 and RM1000 per month.
Introduce a special course under your 'hospitality' arm. After all, those who work at hotels, clubs and restaurants are not called 'maids' although they do maids' work such as making up the bed, cleaning the hotel rooms, etc.
Give it a special name. Hospitality is becoming an asset to certain industries. Some colleges do offer hospitality courses for locals and foreign students. The Segi College, for example.
Its better to give a higher salary to our locals because they are familiar with our surrounding. The also speak the same language and understand local cultures.
And the best part is, we know where they came from. So, its easy to tackle them should they 'escape'. Employers too will find it comfortable having a local and professionally-trained maid in their house.
Besides, we will be able to save millions of ringgit from leaving the country.
The Indonesian government is playing hard to get, actually. As our priority and preference are the Indonesian maids, we are bound to agree to whatever conditions they put forth.
So, Mr Minister, this is not a dead end. We have options here. The only problem is, some people make big bucks from importing the maids. Among them are politicians. And when politic is added to the matter, it becomes a MUST business.
Think about it, will you?
Come on lar... 54 years after Independence, we still need to import toothpicks