SAUDI ARABIA

Each recruitment firm may bring 200 Indonesian maids

October 19, 2017

Hazim Al-Mutairi



Okaz/Saudi Gazette

RIYADH — Every national recruitment office will be allowed to recruit about 200 housemaids from Indonesia to work with Saudi families, according to Mohammed Al-Talib, head of the recruitment committee of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Housemaids will be able to transfer their iqamas (residence IDs) to the sponsorship of Saudi employers after three months of their arrival in the Kingdom, he said.

Talib said the Ministry of Labor and Social Development has imposed new rules and regulations after the recruitment of Indonesian housemaids resumed after a hiatus of six years.

He said the contracting procedures will be done with Indonesian recruitment offices.

The cost of importing domestic help from other countries is expected to drop by about 50 percent with the return of Indonesian housemaids.

However, local recruitment offices are waiting to obtain the details of the modalities of importing housemaids from Indonesia to start recruitment procedures, according to sources.

Hakeem Al-Khinaizi, owner of a recruitment office, said the system of letting housemaids work with employers on a monthly basis will enable the beneficiaries to immediately obtain a substitute if they wish. He said before the ban, Indonesia used to send between 20,000 and 25,000 housemaids every month while the Philippines was sending about 5,000 housemaids and Sri Lanka 2,500.

He said when the ban was imposed on the recruitment of housemaids from Indonesia, the cost of recruiting a housemaid from Sri Lanka went from SR6,500 to about SR25,000.


October 19, 2017
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