Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/11
By: Jay Chou and Elizabeth Hsu
Jakarta, Sept. 11 (CNA) A Taipei-based organization devoted to services for foreign workers called on
(Photo courtesy of the the Global Workers’ Organization, Taiwan)
migrant workers to document their work life with cellphones as a strategy for self-protection.
Karen Hsu (徐瑞希), head of the Global Workers’ Organization, Taiwan (GWO, Taiwan), made the call at a GWO-sponsored forum in Jakarta, Indonesia Saturday. Representatives of Indonesians migrant workers’ groups attended the event to talk about the current situation of Indonesian workers in Taiwan and the problems they face.
GWO has been encouraging migrant workers to shoot their own stories with video-cameras or mobile phones. When necessary, such video records can be a protection, Hsu said.
She mentioned a recent case of an Indonesian caregiver having been sexually assaulted by her Taiwanese employers. The victim’s act of secretly filming the process of her being assaulted helped expose the alleged crime, leading local police to intervene and offer their protection for the woman, Hsu said. [FULL STORY]
