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Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past
43% came from Indonesia, and 98% of them are women.
In the past 20 years, their share of the overall labour force
in Hong Kong has increased substantially from 5.3% to
9.3%, they have become an indispensable part of the local
community.
They are mainly responsible for household chores, taking
care of the children and the elderly, thereby releasing the
duties of home-bound women, enabling more than half
of the women in Hong Kong to go out to work. However,
056 some people have criticised that the large number of 057
foreign domestic helpers reduced the development
momentum of Hong Kong's childcare and elderly services.
As the economy of Southeast Asian countries has
improved in recent years, it has been reported from time
to time that these countries will stop exporting domestic
helpers. For example, in 2016, Indonesia said that women
would no longer be approved to work as foreign domestic
helpers by 2019, for those who are working in Hong Kong,
they can choose to continue or not.
If one day, we do not have these needed helpers, what
shall we do?
