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Malaysia will review Indonesian domestic maid mistreatment cases to ensure that justice is served based on the existing laws in the country.

The victim told the police that she was beaten up, splashed with hot water and pinched by her female employer since last year.

A housewife who stirred controversy for abusing an Indonesian domestic maid four years ago will begin serving her eight-year imprisonment for the offence today.

Ahmad Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said this measure was important to reduce the burden of those needing domestic help.

Malaysia and Cambodia will continue to work together to enable more Cambodians to work in the country as domestic maids.

A lawmaker today proposed that illegal female foreign migrants already in this country be allowed to be hired as domestic maids to reduce the problem of illegals.

Indonesia's proposal to raise the salary for domestic maids to RM1,200 is too high compared to the minimum salary fixed in Malaysia which is RM900, said Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot

The Malaysian Association of Employment Agencies (Pikap) has brought in about 40,000 domestic maids from the Philippines last year to accommodate requests from locals.

Malaysia and Indonesia Thursday agreed that their respective foreign workers recruitment agencies engage in a formal cooperation in the sending of Indonesian domestic maids to Malaysia.