( 17 ) 
(4) The introduction of the principle of a 
standard wage in the case of Indian 
Labourers. 
The text of Section 141, Labour Code, Federated 
Malay States, containing the provisions relating to 
standard rates of wages is given in Appendix D. No 
penalty attaches to noncompliance with any notification 
made under this section but sanction is provided by the 
power of the Committee to refuse free passages and 
other benefits of the Fund. 
21. With the repeal and reenactment in a consoli- 
dated form of the various enactments' relating to labour 
it has been found necessary to retain the separate 
Netherlands Indian Labourers Protection Enactment. 
The reason for this is that in the case of this class 
of labour alone the indentured system still survives. 
The control exercised by the Indian Immigration 
Department and the Chinese Protectorate in the case 
of Indian and Chinese labourers respectively was 
instituted for the protection of labourers under 
indenture. 
The indentured system in the case of Indians was 
abolished in 1910 and for Chinese in 1914. 
As long ago as 1890, as we see from the Report of 
the Labour Commission of that year, the possibility of 
developing Javanese immigration was being seriously 
considered. Thus “Java is a source from which our 
labour supply might be much augmented. Just as 
in India, there appear to be large , numbers' of men in 
indigent circumstances, whose emigration could only 
be a benefit to themselves and to their country, and 
who would be ready to come over were they given 
facilities/’ 
