Sadly, this too is Taiwan...

Indonesian band takes stand for Taiwan’s migrant workers | Labour Rights News | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/7/1/indonesian-band-takes-stand-for-taiwans-migrant-workers

Almost all workers arrive in #Taiwan through an employment agency or broker, which immediately opens them up to exploitation.
“We have to pay them to get us here,” Rudi said, referring to the “placement fees” these brokers charge. “Then, when we get to Taiwan, we also need to pay. They cut our salary to pay for the monthly fees.”
For many, these placement fees can be as much as $9,000. That represents an almost insurmountable cost for the migrant workers who exclusively come from less wealthy Southeast Asian countries, explained Lennon Wang from Serve the People Association (SPA), a local NGO that focuses on migrant worker rights.
Originally from a family of rural farmers in the north of the Philippines’s Luzon Island, Ronalyn Asis had to pay some 120,000 Philippine pesos ($2,035) to cover the costs of her training, plane tickets and placement fees before she started working as a domestic carer in Taiwan in 2014.