A food stall owner lied to her Indonesian domestic helper, claiming that she wanted to send her home to Surabaya for a purported 10-day holiday, before cancelling the maid’s work permit. Singaporean Hong Xuanyu travelled to Batam with Ms Islahatul Alif on April 28, 2018,...
Ms Islahatul started working for Hong in February 2018. Hong broke the law by making the helper work at her fish soup stall at Jurong Point shopping mall almost every day for about three weeks.
At around noon, Hong told the maid that she would be sending her home to Surabaya for a purported 10-day holiday, and the journey there would be made via Batam. “However, the accused convinced Islahatul that she was not intending to replace her, and insisted on sending Islahatul home. Islahatul reluctantly agreed.”
When they arrived in Batam before 6pm that day, Hong told the maid to take a taxi to an airport and fly home to Surabaya. She did not give Ms Islahatul any money for either the taxi ride or the flight home. She also did not return Ms Islahatul’s work permit card to her.
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