Plunge in domestic worker applications suggests trafficking - ambassador

A 95 percent dropout of initial applications to hire Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia has the republic worried that a large number of its citizens are still being smuggled into Malaysia, said its ambassador to Malaysia, Hermono.

“These statistics are very worrying,” said Hermono, who, like many Indonesians, goes by a single name.

“At least 65,000 job orders have fallen through and...