Source: Asia Times:
By Ramzy Baroud
In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on his cigarette, and a whole band of children run around in a refreshing chaos that breaks the monotony of the posh but impersonal setting.
Chasing behind the children for no other reason than being constantly vigilant is a very skinny Indonesian teenager wearing a tightly wrapped headscarf, worn out blue jeans and a long shirt. She is the maid, or khadama as maids are called here, meaning a servant.