Jakarta – House Commission V overseeing public housing would issue a formal reprimand to legislators who neglected Indonesian domestic workers in Dubai International Airport, should any of them be reported, a legislator said.

"The victims should report directly to us," commission vice chairman Mulyadi said Saturday, as quoted by kompas.com.

Mulyadi, who was with the commission's group during the incident, had earlier denied neglecting the Indonesian workers.

Mulyadi led the commission's group that went to Moscow to study low-cost apartments. Returning home, the legislators met 150 Indonesian domestic workers during the flight's transit in Dubai. They were all expecting to take the same flight to Jakarta. The flight's delay caused panic among the women workers, who were required to fill out forms so that they could stay overnight while waiting for another flight.

An online media service reported that the legislators huddled among themselves and refused to help the confused workers, most of whom could barely speak English. One legislator, Etha Bulo, reportedly shouted at them.

Etha admitted to asking the workers to be quiet but denied having raised her voice toward them. "Imagine, there were 150 of them, all talking loudly. Aren't we supposed to be ashamed of it? I told them to ask for the flight information from [airport] officials. I didn't yell," the politician from Papua said.