INDONESIAN domestic workers, who are defying a ban on working in the GCC, are considered as illegal residents by their own government despite having a valid work visa.
Jakarta imposed the ban in 2015 following repeated complaints of abuse by its citizens and the execution of two Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia, who were convicted of murdering a woman and a four-year-old child respectively in separate cases.
The moratorium covering 21 Middle Eastern countries, including Bahrain, was put in place only for domestic workers, however, hundreds of women defy the ban daily and arrive in the GCC by taking transit flights through other Asian countries.
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