Emirates

Last week end when I was in a hurry to go back to Jakarta, I have no choice to take Emirates Airlines.
This is my first time to take Emirates, actually the price different between Emirates and Thai Airways (which I normally take), not so significant, but due to work commitment (ceilaaa.....) I had to take Emirates...
It was a transit flight from Colombo and most of the passengers are TKI (Indonesian workers, mostly maid) from UAE.
Been heard so many bad news about how our TKI got abused over there, I was wondering, all of them looked quite well, happy, no sign of abused at all.
On board, I was very "kaypoh" as the one sitting next to me is one of the TKI, so I chatted her, she had just finished the contract of 2 years, and decided to go back to her hometown, NTB. Asking about how was the treatment and all the news that we always heard, she said it all depends on the employer, the worst that she got was only scolding here and there. She said if they don't like the master, then they can ask the office to change, and the same as the master.
From her story, she said that the in Jakarta office they had to join a class, based on the education that they had before, then they were taught English, which she said it's no use at all, because in UAE all the employer speaks Arabic, so most of them only can cry as they felt so helpless, and started to learn by themselves. She also said she waited for about 6 months before being sent to UAE, and for those unlucky one, they could wait for ages....so it is encouraged to bribe the officer so that you can be sent immediately, even the fake certificate also been provided.
I felt sorry for them, they look so naive, young, playful, etc...So I reminded her by the time she arrived in Jakarta please don't trust anybody with her money, don't trust anybody with no identification as an officer or what so ever, as lots of story also they were cheated and conned by the time they reached Jakarta.
When we arrived, the queue at immigration was so long, partly also because of all the TKI, and they don't even know how to fill in the form, some of them also got problem with their passport, so my time wasted quite a lot to wait for my turn.
Now Indonesian immigration divide the counter for foreign passport and Indonesian passport, so CC went to queue for the foreign one. The previous week the officer insisted to see his return ticket, so last week I made sure I passed him the ticket before he queued up, then this officer straight away asked him,"Wah sering ya datang ke Jakarta (soale minggu lalunya kan dateng juga), ada urusan apa ya?"
CC answered (CC can speak broken Indo though),"Jalan jalan", then the officer said," Minum kopi dong", CC still insisted "Bukan, jalan jalan" Actually CC had already knew what he meant. Finally the officer said "Tolonglah pak kasih saya uang untuk minum kopi."
Hearing that request so CC voluntarily opened up his wallet in front of everybody and gave him 10 Malaysian Ringgit.... Haizzzzz....Indonesia....masih aje kayak gitu ye......after that the officer gave CC a very broad smile.......