A draft agreement, regulating domestic help, was agreed upon last week by the Ministry of Labor and the Indonesian Ministry of Labor and Immigration. According to Dr. Ahmed F. Al-Fahaid, Deputy Labor Minister for international affairs, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Indonesia will sign a landmark labor pact in the few coming months in a renewed bid to regulate hiring domestic workers and to ensure protection to all domestic help already employed in the Kingdom. Al Fahaid also added that "the agreement will have the same provisions including protection mechanism for domestic help like the one we signed with India earlier this month." The labor agreement for domestic workers recruitment was a joint effort by both countries to create a unified and well-regulated system for recruitment with emphasis on monitoring the working conditions of workers.
