'The employer walked free.'
1 March 2023, 11:35 pm"Help me, I am being tortured by my employer," Meriance Kabu wrote."I'm covered in blood every day, help me!"
That same day, 20 December 2014, Malaysian police knocked on the door of the apartment where Meriance lived. She hadn't left it in eight months. Meriance testified in court before finally returning home to her family. Two years later she got news from the Indonesian embassy that prosecutors had dropped the case citing insufficient evidence."The employer walked free, where is the justice?" asks the country's ambassador to Malaysia, Hermono who met Meriance in October.
Malaysia's foreign affairs ministry told the BBC"they would ensure that justice will be served according to the law". Eight years on, her body still bears the marks of this torture. There's a deep scar on her upper lip, four of her teeth are missing and one ear is deformed. Undocumented workers like her are especially vulnerable because their passports are taken away and they live with the employer in a foreign country, leaving them few options to seek help.
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