REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- House of Representatives protests an advertisement in Malaysia which features a phrase saying 'Fire Your Indonesian Maid Now'. The statement is considered insulting Indonesia.

A member of Commission IX at the House of Representatives Rieke Diah Pitaloka said that the statement contained racial and hatred contents toward Indonesian workers in Malaysia. "The ads can stain international human rights agreement," Pitaloka said on Wednesday, February 4.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Politician said that Malaysia must stop the advertisement. The company issued the advertisement, RoboVac, which sells robotic vacuum cleaner, must also apologize to Indonesia.

Deputy Speaker of Commission I at the House of Representatives, Tantowi Yahya, also said that the advertisement insulted Indonesian workers. "It seems like Indonesians who need jobs. It is them who need us," Yahya said. He explained that the concept of manpower between Indonesia and Malaysia was based on mutual relations.

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