December 20, 2009

Malaysia: Risking Lives in a Faraway Country

You have to see them scaling the heights of all those multi-storeyed buildings. Without harnesses, hard-hats and industrial boots, they are there on the scaffolding and on the skeletal frames of buildings.


My salute to these Indonesia workers. They have to take so much risk to earn so little. And to die by falling off these tall buildings far away from home if indeed tragic.


Lately, a majority of these Indonesian construction workers have mostly gone home as the economy is getting better there at home. Armed with new skills acquired through the Malaysian experience, they know that they can now earn better at home than before.


And that,my friend, is the silver lining.

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