I understand their hesitation regarding Indonesian BUT the Filipinos? its a complementary if you ask me, Hua Qiao here can easily adopt with the language and most Filipino can easily assimilate, my perception from my conversation with professional people with high paying job working there why they want to return is the high cost of living and the pressure of work, aside from that there is discriminate, Singaporean look down on us as they are use on seeing the Filipina domestic help and drew conclusion from what they see. And also it doesn't help with bad publicity on both side regarding abuses and violation of contract.
Are you saying that the Filipinos are less tolerant to working in Singapore compared to Indian? Surely working conditions in Singapore are not any worse than the some ME countries (where there are many Filipino workers) unless there is significant gap in pay. I do not see this cost of living and working conditions as a major barrier. I can see why there are less Chinese migrant workers as they can perhaps find better work opportunities elsewhere. It seems that Singapore has a preference for Non=Asean migrant workers and I have to wonder why?
Or perhaps South Asian workers are willing to work for lesser pay?