Indonesia’s foreign domestic workers : dilemma of not working overseas

• Main Author: Nair, Tamara
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104449; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/26083
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the United Nations takes stock of how far women have come in getting women’s rights acknowledged as human rights, Indonesia wants to stop sending women out of the country as foreign domestic workers (FDWs).This will throw a wrench in their financial empowerment.