Seated in his Jakarta offices, Raditya Surono complained about how government and civil society organizations expected the impossible from his recruitment company. “If the employers don’t pay the salary – they say it’s the agency’s fault. The employer is never at fault. If the employer hits the maid, it’s our fault. They blame us for sending the worker to someone who will do something like this, like we know everything, like [we are] God. And when the worker kills the employer, we are also to blame.” Being “like God” in Surono’s reasoning meant being held accountable for all manner of highly contingent outcomes—from non-payment of salaries to egregious human rights violations. He claimed other migration stakeholders did not seem to understand that doing business meant that gains came with taking risks. “But the government, and also some NGOs, they want the high gain without the risk.” Surono was especially bitter about his government’s unilateral declaration of domestic worker deployment moratoriums, and when the Indonesian government’s specialised agency, the BNP2TKI, ate into his market share. “The government is using our tax payment to take our market.” Surono then complained about the constantly changing, sometimes arbitrary rules that make it difficult to operate. “They force us to do wrong. To break the rules.”