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    This document discusses migrant domestic workers from Indonesia in Hong Kong and the challenges they face. It specifically focuses on Eni Lestari, an Indonesian migrant worker who arrived in Hong Kong in 1999 and faced abuse from her placement agency and employer. This experience inspired her to organize other Indonesian migrant workers. She went on to found several advocacy organizations for Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and internationally that aim to address issues like underpayment, overcharging of placement fees, and lack of holidays. These organizations operate transnationally and engage in political activism and advocacy to improve conditions for Indonesian migrant workers.

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    This document discusses migrant domestic workers from Indonesia in Hong Kong and the challenges they face. It specifically focuses on Eni Lestari, an Indonesian migrant worker who arrived in Hong Kong in 1999 and faced abuse from her placement agency and employer. This experience inspired her to organize other Indonesian migrant workers. She went on to found several advocacy organizations for Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and internationally that aim to address issues like underpayment, overcharging of placement fees, and lack of holidays. These organizations operate transnationally and engage in political activism and advocacy to improve conditions for Indonesian migrant workers.

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    Indonesian Migrant Organisations in Hong Kong: Advocacy in Transnational Space

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    This document discusses migrant domestic workers from Indonesia in Hong Kong and the challenges they face. It specifically focuses on Eni Lestari, an Indonesian migrant worker who arrived in Hong Kong in 1999 and faced abuse from her placement agency and employer. This experience inspired her to organize other Indonesian migrant workers. She went on to found several advocacy organizations for Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and internationally that aim to address issues like underpayment, overcharging of placement fees, and lack of holidays. These organizations operate transnationally and engage in political activism and advocacy to improve conditions for Indonesian migrant workers.

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    Indonesian Migrant Organisations in Hong Kong

    Advocacy in Transnational Space

    Stefan Rother

    Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

    Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong


    - - Filipinas since the 1970s - Indonesians since the mid-1990s - 2012: - - ca. 120 000 Filipinas - - ca. 150 000 Indonesians

    - Smaller numbers of Thai, Nepalese, Sri Lankans

    Stefan Rother

    Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

    Challenges for migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong


    two-year contract workers Live-in domestic worker (vulnerability) Two-week rule Minimum wage underpayment and overcharging Indonesians: 90 per cent in 1999, 42 per cent in 2005, 22 per cent in 2007 One day off on Sunday: Filipinas 93 per cent, Indonesian 56 per cent Placement Fees equivalent to 7 (!) months wages

    Indonesians more vulnerable

    Stefan Rother

    Transnational Places and Spaces in Hongkong (Central)

    Stefan Rother

    Indonesians in Hong Kong

    Stefan Rother

    The story of Eni Lestari

    Stefan Rother

    IMA

    Stefan Rother

    Eni Lestari
    From Kediri East Java Arrived in HK in 1999 Two-fold abuse: - Placement agency: underpayment, confiscated passport, no holiday - Employer: made her eat pork, had to share room with teenage son - Escaped to shelter - Contact with Mission for Filipino Migrant Workers - --) Inspiration to organise

    Stefan Rother

    Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

    Stefan Rother

    Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

    - Founder of ATKI - Alliance PILAR (Indonesians against overcharging) - Chairperson Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) - Chairperson International Migrants Alliance (IMA) - ATKI Indonesia, Macao, Taiwan. - International Assembly of Migrants and Refugees (IAMR)
    Stefan Rother

    IAMR/GFMD

    Stefan Rother

    Transnational Political Spaces


    Transnational political space: reaches beyond borders of the nation-state and nationalities Processes of diffusion political activism, strategies, organisational forms, ideologies Philippine migrant movement is split, mirrored by the Indonesians Organisasi Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di Hong Kong (KOTKIHO) Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (SBMI) ---)diffusion of cleavages

    Stefan Rother

    Stefan Rother

    Terimah Kasih !
    Email: mail@stefan-rother.de Blog: http://gfmd-blog.com

    Stefan Rother

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