KUCHING: Miri police have dismissed an Indonesian newspaper report of a maid being badly abused by her employer in Miri just five days after she started working late last year.

Miri district police chief Assistant Commissioner Jama- luddin Ibrahim said no report was received from any Indonesian maid either late last year or this year.

"To my knowledge, there were no maid abuse reports from any quarters recently," he said when asked to comment on an online report on Friday.

Under the headline "Maid suffers in Malaysia, working for five days and already being abused", the report was about a 19-year-old girl from central Java who was said to be in a critical condition following the alleged abuse.

According to the report, the girl was offered work as a maid in Miri for a salary of RM400 a month.

Agreeing to the salary, she came to Miri with seven others from her country at the end of last December.

She claimed that upon her arrival in Miri, she was sent to a coffee shop owner in Jalan Virus, the place where the alleged abuse began.

"Five days after working at the coffee shop, I was badly abused by my employer," she was quoted as saying.

The girl, who reportedly obtained treatment at a hospital in Miri, claimed that she was told to return to Jakarta to have better medical treatment.

She was said to have returned to Jakarta last Wednesday and was now placed at a shelter home there.