JAKARTA: Sari, a 32-year-old garment factory worker, relies on over-the-counter painkillers just to get through the day. Her problem is not in the workplace, it’s at home, with her abusive husband.
“I cry and cannot sleep after a rough fight. I get awful headaches and arrive at work tired,” she said. “I need to take a higher dose of medicine just to be able to finish my work.”
All have experienced domestic abuse –physical, psychological and emotional – for years, and some still endure it to this day. Moreover, those who suffered psychological abuse found it hard to concentrate, causing them to make mistakes or leading to workplace accidents, while those who were emotionally abused could have emotional breakdowns at work and not want to return home.
“I get home around midnight. By then, I just want to rest,” she said as quoted in the report. “I get up at 4am to do the laundry and clean the house.” The abuse they suffer can come in many forms, from being beaten and forced to work, to humiliation, being cheated on, ignored and threatened. Some of the women wished their husbands would divorce them, but other were not prepared to leave their abusive spouses as they had children together.
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