"According to information I received, Migrant Care reported the incident last 2007. However, the victim choose not to report to the police and therefore the case is closed," the minister said here on Friday after speaking to the media about the ministry`s achievements during 2010 and outlook for 2011.
Marty emphasized that all officers in his ministry would do their best to protect and defend Indonesian worker`s rights abroad.
"Of the total of 3.3 million of Indonesian workers abroad, 16,000 of them face legal charges during 2010 and we have solved 90 percent of the cases by December 2010. The rest 10 percent are still on the process," said the minister.
Meanwhile, different statement was made by Moh Jumhur Hidayat, head of the Indonesian migrant worker placement and protection national agency. He refuted a recent report that an Indonesian housemaid had been raped by a minister in Malaysia.
"There is a written confirmation directly from the migrant worker that she had never been raped while working in Malaysia," Jumhur said.
A staff of the Semarang office of the migrant worker placement and protection service, AB Rachman, had met the former maid in her home at Pagelak village, Madukara sub district, Banjarnegara District, Central Java.
"I have reported about the explanation to Mr. Muhaimin (manpower and transmigration minister)," Jumhur said.
Rubingah reportedly said that she had worked in a Malaysian minister`s house in Negeri Sembilan for eight years since 1999.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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