Indonesian Helper

My helper with our family for 3 years and we brought her for trip to aboard, go to cinema and etc.


Last Sunday (15 Aug) she did not come back after her holiday and we found out many of jewels stolen. Among them are very memorable for me( wedding ring, and watch from my father ..total value of HK200,000.) Seems she borrowed money from people. After she left many calls from people looking for her.


Monday I reported police and they came to my house took pictures. Also I mailed to HK immigration and Indonesian consulate. I called to Indonesian Cosulate but always on answering machine. I email to them but no reply.


Police said it takes around 2 weeks to investigate her departure from HK. If she is still in HK, police can caught her when she departure. But if she already left HK on Sunday morning(15th) there is no way HK police can chase her. Is that true? I believe there must be a way to catch criminal between HK and Indonesia.


Has anyone experiance like this? Please advise?

I am sorry to hear this has happened to you, I hpoe they find this ex-helper, if you don't hear from the Indonesian consulate, then perhaps find out where it is and go to see them.

Also if you got her from an agency, maybe they have more details on her, such as home address, if they can't give details to you maybe they can give them to the police to chase her,

Good luck

hu5215,


I find it a bit hard to understand why the police would say it takes anything like 2 weeks to check whether or not she has left HK. It's all computerised, and Immigration could determine whether she has or not within a few minutes - provided they have her passport details. The problem , though, is that they will not release that information to you, let alone entertain any enquiry for such information from a private citizen - so the request in this case will need to come from the police. That suggests to me that the long time required is for the police to get their paperwork together on a case that they're probably not that bothered about.


Incidentally, I found your title ("Indonesian Helper") quite unhelpful and somewhat unfair, as what has happened to you could have equally involved a helper of any nationality. By using the tile you did paints an unfair picture of Indonesian helpers in general.


Good luck with trying to sort things out.


And in case you don't know where the Indonesian Consulate is located (as per Susie1's post above) it's in Causeway Bay. I think it's Keswick Street (not sure, but I walk past it often).

"Incidentally, I found your title ("Indonesian Helper") quite unhelpful and somewhat unfair," - yet factual.

Unfortunate. But valuables should be kept in a secure place, surely? I am suprised that someone would leave a wedding ring and valuable jewelry around.

Even in the UK when I was a child and my mother employed a 'home help' - it was considered 'wise' (to be on safe side and not tempt someone) to put away things of this personal nature, just to be on safe side.

The home help would not have been as poor as the helpers who work in HK but it just was sensible to avoid any situations like this.

Agreed with Louiseamanda. Of course a helper needs to be trusted. However there is no need to leave temptation lying around. Buy a small safe and use it.


"yet factual."


For this single case, yes. But it still sounds somewhat damning of Indonesian helpers in general.