"Help me, I'm being tormented by my manager," Meriance Kabu composed. "I'm shrouded in blood consistently, help me!"
She then, at that point, immediately collapsed the note and tossed it out of the secured iron entryways of the condo in suburbia of Kuala Lumpur where she was functioning as a live-in house cleaner.
A lady missing by picked it. When she read it, she quickly took it to a resigned cop who lived in similar pads. "On the off chance that she had remained there, she unquestionably would have passed on," he later said.
That very day, 20 December 2014, Malaysian police thumped on the entryway of the condo where Meriance resided. She hadn't left it in eight months.
"I felt like I was falling," she says, reviewing the second when she saw the officials. "They said, 'Don't be apprehensive, we are here'. At that point I felt solid once more. I felt like I could inhale once more. The officials called me closer and I came clean with them."
This story contains subtleties a few perusers might see as troubling.
Nine years on, Meriance is as yet battling for equity. Her case, which is nowhere near exceptional, uncovers exactly the way that weak undocumented transient specialists are and how frequently equity escapes even the individuals who get by to recount their story.
In 2015, police charged Meriance's manager, Ong Su Ping Tranquil, with causing appalling hurt, endeavored murder, illegal exploitation and movement infringement. She argued not blameworthy.
Meriance affirmed in court before at last getting back to her loved ones. After two years she got news from the Indonesian consulate that investigators had dropped the case refering to deficient proof.
Meriance in 2014 after she was protected, her wounds obviously noticeable, and a more established, more youthful photograph of her
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Meriance's significant other says he didn't perceive her when she was protected
"The business strolled free, where is the equity?" asks the country's envoy to Malaysia, Hermono (a large number go by a solitary name) who met Meriance in October.
The consulate has recruited legitimate guidance for herself and has been campaigning for the situation against Meriance's boss to be continued.
"What was the justification behind the deferral? Isn't five years sufficient opportunity? On the off chance that we don't continue to ask, it will be neglected, particularly since Meriance has previously gotten back."
It's hazy why not many maltreatment cases end in arraignments in Malaysia yet campaigners highlight a culture which sees homegrown laborers, the vast majority of whom are Indonesian, as peasants not deserving of similar degree of security as Malaysians.
Malaysia's international concerns service told the BBC "they would guarantee that a fair outcome will be given by the law".
In 2018 an Indonesian court imprisoned two people for dealing Meriance. The appointed authority decided that she had been shipped off work in Malaysia "as a servant for Ong Su Ping Tranquil who tormented her, causing serious wounds" that put her in medical clinic.
Meriance's difficulty was depicted in upsetting subtlety in the decision, which said the business had seriously beaten her, breaking her nose in one example, and had frequently tormented her with a hot iron, tweezers, mallet, twirly doo and forceps.
Eight years on, her body actually bears the characteristics of this torment. There's a profound scar on her upper lip, four of her teeth are absent and one ear is twisted.
Her significant other Karvius said he was unable to perceive her after she was safeguarded: "I was so stunned when they showed me pictures of Meri at the clinic."
Last year, Malaysia and Indonesia consented to an arrangement to work on the state of Indonesian homegrown specialists in the country. Indonesia is currently campaigning for the argument against Meriance's boss to be continued.
Undocumented specialists like her are particularly defenseless on the grounds that their visas are removed and they live with the business in a far off country, passing on them few choices to look for help.
"Everybody requirements to assume greater liability," says Malaysian MP Hannah Yeoh who needs to see a finish to what she depicts as a social of quietness in the country around the maltreatment of homegrown specialists.
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Malaysia's service of labor supply says there are in excess of 63,000 Indonesian homegrown aides in their nation, however that does exclude undocumented specialists. There are no reasonable assessments on their numbers. The Indonesian consulate says it has gotten reports of almost 500 instances of maltreatment over the most recent five years.
That figure is only a "hint of something larger", says Envoy Hermono, in light of the fact that such countless cases, particularly those including undocumented laborers, actually go unreported.
"I don't have the foggiest idea when this will end. What we can be sure of is that there are something else and more casualties - from torment, non-installment of compensations and different wrongdoings."
The consulate hasn't monitored the number of misuse cases have brought about an indictment. Yet, there have been some high-profile decisions. In 2008 a Malaysian lady was condemned to 18 years in prison for tormenting her Indonesian house cleaner. After six years a couple was condemned to death for killing their Indonesian homegrown laborer.
'I will battle until I kick the bucket'
"I will battle for equity until I kick the bucket," Meriance says. "I simply need to have the option to ask my previous boss, 'For what reason did you torment me?'"
Meriance with her better half and three kids
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Meriance with her better half and their three kids
She was 32 when she chose to look for work abroad so that "the youngsters would never again weep for food". Life was extreme in their town in West Timor, where there is no power or clean running water. Furthermore, her better half's compensation as a day worker wasn't sufficient to help their group of six.
She took up the proposal of work in Malaysia and longed for building a permanent place to stay for her loved ones.
At the point when she showed up in Kuala Lumpur in April 2014, the specialist took her visa and gave it over to her boss. Scouts in Indonesia had proactively taken her telephone.
However, Meriance was confident of a superior life. Her occupation was to "take care of grandmother", her boss Tranquil's mom, who was 93 years of age at that point.
Three weeks after she began her work, she says, the beatings started.
One night, Peaceful needed to cook fish yet couldn't find it in the fridge since Meriance had erroneously placed it in the cooler. Unexpectedly, Meriance says she was struck by the frozen fish. Her head began to drain.
From that point forward, she says, she was beaten consistently.
She says was never permitted to leave the condo. The iron door to the level was constantly locked and she didn't have a key. Four of the neighbors who lived in a similar block didn't know about her reality until the day the police showed up.
"I just saw her the night she was saved," one of them said.
Meriance says the torment and beatings possibly halted when her manager became drained. She then, at that point, requested Meriance to tidy up her own blood that had splattered on the floor and walls.
There were times, she says, when she contemplated taking her life, yet the prospect of her four youngsters back home made all the difference for her.
Meriance Kabu in Malaysia
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Meriance says the possibility of her kids moved her along through everything
"I additionally pondered retaliating," she said. "Be that as it may, on the off chance that I battled, I would have passed on."
Then, at that point, at some point - toward the finish of 2014 - she took a gander at herself in the mirror and felt something transform: "I was unable to take it any longer. I was furious, not with the business. I was furious with myself. I needed to set out to attempt to get out."
That is the point at which she composed the letter that would free her.
The BBC made various endeavors to contact her manager Ong Su Ping Tranquil for her reaction to the charges, yet she declined to do as such.
Meriance says her battle for equity is additionally in the interest of others like her - and the people who didn't make it.
Envoy Hermono is taking care of one more instance of a homegrown specialist who he says was tormented "past human explanation" and starved. She weighed simply 30kg when she was saved. Her manager is as of now being investigated.
However, there are those like 20-year-old Adelina Sau who weren't protected in time. She was supposedly starved and tormented by her manager, which prompted her passing.
Her boss was accused of homicide however in 2019 the arraignment pulled out the charges. An allure for resume the case was dismissed the year before.
Adelina was from a similar locale as Meriance in West Timor.
Meriance says she met Adelina's mom in their town and told her, "Despite the fact that your girl is dead her voice is in me."