Hopefully Indonesia's ban on maids going to KSA will force KSA to rethink its domestic work situation for the benefit of all workers in the country.

Sikandar--"and the "west" one got deleted - amazing" this is because this forum is about the labor laws/working conditions of a specific country.  The Mods have the good sense to realize that it is relevant to other GCC due to the sponsorship laws--particularly Qatar as those laws are being reviewed at the moment.  In other words it is relevant.  No one is bashing a religion, or a culture or a race here, which was clearly the purpose of the European.  To see everything in those terms is to miss the point; and as soon as you start reducing a thread to that, the Mods generally delete it (and you so many times).  :-)