Indonesian youth sues employer for abuse - 15 Feb 09

An Indonesian teenager has launched a landmark legal case over abuse she suffered at the hands of her employers.

She was one of an estimated 700 thousand Indonesian children working as domestic servants.

Now a push is underway to change laws, and attitudes, to protect them.

Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Serang in West Java.

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[teemuruskeepaa]

This is not human nature, it is tyranny of the few

[thaitea10]

This is so troubling. These children should be in school. Education is a vital tool to break the cycle of poverty.

[unytcommsys]

Yes it is, but what you gonna do when you have desperate people.

[Meatpieandtatters]

Human Rights Watch is a freaking Joke. Yet another bureaucracy whose only goal is to perpetuate their own existence while appearing to actually make a difference.

[justicewillsurvive]

I'm a against underage workers, but if their families are poor, they have no choice !

[jankren]

Im against worker abuse. But Im also against restriction of underage workers.

If my family were very poor I would wanna be able to work even if I was only 10 years old if that meant my family would be able to eat.

[NotOurCause]

This is just sad ,humans r just meat for monsters