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• W225858166 abstract "Excluded, like many other marginalized and dispossessed groups, from 5 the negotiating site where decisions ultimately affecting their lives and livelihoods were being hammered out, Indonesian domestic workers (IDWs) nonetheless commanded attention with their impassioned, vibrant presence in the grassroots protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) during its sixth ministerial conference in Hong Kong. The IDWs constituted the largest and most prominent contingent of local demonstrators. Under the coalitional umbrella of KOTKIHO (Hong Kong Coalition of Indonesian Migrant Workers Organizations), hundreds of vivacious women marched and danced to music drummed up from traditional handheld gongs; sang folk and pop songs with rewritten, progressive lyrics; waved bold banners; staged a funeral procession for the WTO; killed a gigantic puppet WTOsaurus; and performed dramatic scenes of abuse, exploitation, and resistance in the approved protest zones. Remarkable in its visual impact, their activism is especially striking against the pervasive public effacement that plagues migrant workers in general and foreign domestic workers (FDWs) in particular. Countering the invisibility and isolation of their work and everyday existence in individual households, which are discursively reinforced by the prevalent representation of migrant women as helpless victims of trafficking, the IDWs' prominent participation in the WTO protests highlights the tenacity of activist resistance in our contemporary world, which is simultaneously connected and fragmented by global capitalism. Although the several hundred IDWs participating in the WTO protest amount to less than 1 percent of the one-hundred-thousand-plus Indonesian women engaged in migrant domestic work in Hong Kong, their activist involvement is highly significant, not least in shedding a different light on IDWs than that of their objectification and disciplining into submissive, toiling bodies by dominant discourses and actual employment practices. Joining the tenacious struggle begun by Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong more than two decades ago, IDW activism compels our recognition of FDWs' agency in proclaiming a subjectivity and identity against their reduction to domestic bodies at the beck and call of their employers and in service to their nations. The rich array of IDW organizations in Hong Kong underscores the diversity of identification underlying the solidarity of this activism. With the right to association they enjoy under the Hong Kong Employment Ordinance, IDWs in Hong Kong have established numerous organizations catering to different interests and serving different purposes, including labor unions, religious groups, vocational training organizations, charity associations, and cultural groups. The coalitional umbrella of KOTKIHO, formed in 2000, garners seven such diverse organizations together for solidarity struggles to better the conditions of IDWs. As a participant-observer of KOTKIHO's repeated collective actions for wage increases and changes in discriminatory government policies even before the WTO protest, I have witnessed impressive turnouts and passionate commitment to articulating the common concerns and redressing the exploitation and abuse of IDWs in particular and FDWs in general. Because of its global scale, the WTO protest offered an opportunity for KOTKIHO to accentuate and consolidate this collective activist agency, drawing in new participants and energizing veteran activists. Before the weeklong multinational activities coordinated by the Hong Kong People's Alliance in the week of the WTO ministerial, KOTKIHO staged two massive preparatory rallies on successive Sundays at Victoria Park, a transient home that IDWs claim for themselves on their rest days. The rallies featured cultural performances by members of its constitutive organizations and sing-along sessions at which audiences could learn songs with lyrics, set to familiar melodies, about the plight, but also indomitable courage, of Indonesian migrant workers, as well as speeches by Indonesian activists and migrant nongovernmental-organization leaders about the impact of the WTO on the Indonesian economy and the consequent rise in labor migration. …" @default.
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• W225858166 title "Field Note: In Your Face-Indonesian Domestic Workers' Activism at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Hong Kong" @default.
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