Tuanku Najihah offered Nirmala employment in the palace
fairplay
Tuesday May 25, 2004
Nirmala wishes to go home once court case is over
THE only thing on Nirmala Bonat's mind right now is to go home to her
parents in Kupang, Indonesia.
After her alleged ordeal of being abused, including having her breasts
and back severely burnt and scalded, the 19-year-old maid does not wish
to work in Malaysia any more, even in a palace, reported Utusan Malaysia.
The daily quoted Minister of Indonesian Embassy Affairs Soepeno Sahid
as saying that “she really wishes to be reunited with her parents once
her court case is over.”
Speaking on her behalf, she said that Nirmala thanked Tuanku Ampuan
Negri Sembilan Tuanku Najihah Tunku Besar Burhanudin for offering her
work at the palace but apologised that she could not accept it.
On Saturday, Nirmala's employer Yim Pek Ha, 36, was charged in court
for causing grievous hurt to her.
Tuanku Najihah offered Nirmala employment in the palace when she
handed over RM2,000 to Utusan as her contribution to Nirmala on Saturday.
Utusan, commenting on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's
call to housing developers to “build first, sell later,” said it was
time the Government thought about the problems faced by buyers while
reducing the risk of loses to developers.
In its editorial, it described as “only an excuse” the statement by
the Real Estate and Housing Developers Association that the new concept
would cause an increase in house prices and that fewer people would be
able to afford homes as the number of houses built would be limited.
Stating that the current practice needed to be changed, the editorial
said banks and developers who made profits from housing projects should
find new approaches to help the Government implement the proposal to
build houses first before selling them.
It called on the Government to also ensure that developers did not
take advantage of the new concept to increase prices.
Berita Harian's editorial on the same subject said it was well known
that buyers had to bear the burden of paying their bank loans when the
housing projects were abandoned.
The daily said that even with buyers faithfully paying up their loans
and the availability of funds from banks for developers, many closed
shop and ran away after obtaining a chunk of the money.
When tracked down, they gave various excuses for failing to complete
the projects.
Alex
"fairplay" <fair...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
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> Speaking on her behalf, she said that Nirmala thanked Tuanku Ampuan
> Negri Sembilan Tuanku Najihah Tunku Besar Burhanudin for offering her
> work at the palace but apologised that she could not accept it.
Wow... another fairy tale in the making. From an ordinary maid in an
ordinary rakyat household to an extra-ordinary maid in a palace!! I am proud
of my own country for creating fairy tales over fairy tales over and over
again. Bolehland is really boleh! :p
> Tuanku Najihah offered Nirmala employment in the palace when she
> handed over RM2,000 to Utusan as her contribution to Nirmala on Saturday.
Anyone can convert this to Indon currency for me? Pardon me I am dumb. No
amount of money can compensate the wounds on both her body and mind -- if it
was really cruelly inflicted by her employer's wife.
I foresee more and more maids will take advantage of this news (jumping into
the 'bandwagon'?) to take their employers to court with even a slightest
dissatisfaction on their side. I overheard a conversation between two maids
of my immediate neighbours about this issue, and they regarded it as 'skim
cepat kaya' --- meaning, grab it now while it is hot, or lose it big time
when the issue dies down.
How many maids are having thinking capabilities like the two maids of my
immediate neighbours? I wonder, and to all the employers out there, if you
cannot afford to have Filipino maids, forget about employing maids, we had
been doing these chores all the while and we can survive without them.
Even though Filipino domestic helpers are more expensive, they are better
skilled and educated compared to their Indon counterparts.
Cheers,
Alex
Mr_Magoo
> "fairplay" <fair...@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
> news:10b57q8...@corp.supernews.com...
> > Speaking on her behalf, she said that Nirmala thanked Tuanku Ampuan
> > Negri Sembilan Tuanku Najihah Tunku Besar Burhanudin for offering her
> > work at the palace but apologised that she could not accept it.
>
> Wow... another fairy tale in the making. From an ordinary maid in an
> ordinary rakyat household to an extra-ordinary maid in a palace!! I am proud
> of my own country for creating fairy tales over fairy tales over and over
> again. Bolehland is really boleh! :p
>
>
> > Tuanku Najihah offered Nirmala employment in the palace when she
> > handed over RM2,000 to Utusan as her contribution to Nirmala on Saturday.
>
> Anyone can convert this to Indon currency for me? Pardon me I am dumb. No
> amount of money can compensate the wounds on both her body and mind -- if it
> was really cruelly inflicted by her employer's wife.
No amount of money can compensate for what has happened no doubt about
that but that doesn't mean that any money donated to her is not gonna
be useful to her. On the other hand, the abuser will still have to
face the music in our court.
> I foresee more and more maids will take advantage of this news (jumping into
> the 'bandwagon'?) to take their employers to court with even a slightest
> dissatisfaction on their side. I overheard a conversation between two maids
> of my immediate neighbours about this issue, and they regarded it as 'skim
> cepat kaya' --- meaning, grab it now while it is hot, or lose it big time
> when the issue dies down.
That is for the court to decide whether the injury is self inflicted
or not.
> How many maids are having thinking capabilities like the two maids of my
> immediate neighbours? I wonder, and to all the employers out there, if you
> cannot afford to have Filipino maids, forget about employing maids, we had
> been doing these chores all the while and we can survive without them.
What is your problem with Indonesian maid. I can sense that you are
trying to insinuate something here.
> Even though Filipino domestic helpers are more expensive, they are better
> skilled and educated compared to their Indon counterparts.
>
Better education does not necessarily translate to better work or
better skill (not sure what skill you are referring to). What ever it
is, it seems to me you do hold some bias view on domestic helper from
Indonesia.
Rgds,
Mr Magoo
Alex
faced with them are equally felt and faced by many other employers, it is
irrelevant to the discussion here therefore being omitted. I am not
generalizing, I am not stereotyping, I've had Indon and Filipino domestic
helpers, their attitudes and quality of work are worlds apart. But for the
'employers' out there, they get what they are willing to pay for.
Cheers,
Alex
"Mr_Magoo" <sh...@usa.com> wrote in message
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Focus
Coos.
Dumb employers.
And the Consumers Tribunal says that employers can have high expectations of
their maids.
Dumb tribunal.
It is this tribunal's mentality that gives the employers the confidence to
mistreat their maids.
The consumers' tribunal should be revamped to make it fair to all parties,
rather than skewed towards the employers.
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