{"id":9393,"date":"2011-06-21T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-21T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:06:11","slug":"Indonesian-maid-beheaded-in-Saudi-Arabia-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9393","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia."},"content":{"rendered":"

Indonesia will suspend sending domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia<\/strong> after the beheading of a maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, a minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“The Indonesian government has decided to impose a moratorium on sending workers to Saudi Arabia,” <\/strong>Labour Minister Muhaimin Iskandar was quoted by state news agency Antara as saying.<\/p>\n

The report did not provide further details but local media indicated the move was aimed at domestic workers, who make up about 70 percent of the 1.2 million Indonesian workers in the Gulf state<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The suspension will take effect on August 1 and will remain until the Saudi government agrees to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to protect Indonesian workers’ rights<\/strong>, Iskandar said.<\/p>\n

Parliament, yesterday, urged the government to stop sending workers overseas without agreements to guarantee their rights<\/strong>, while key members of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s cabinet have been forced to quit over the persistent abuse of Indonesian migrant workers abroad.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia apologized earlier Wednesday for failing to inform Indonesia of the Saturday beheading with a sword<\/strong> of migrant worker Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54, while Jakarta formally protested to Riyadh over the execution.<\/p>\n

“The ambassador apologized and regretted the situation and said that such a thing wouldn’t happen again in future,” foreign ministry spokesman Michael Tene said.<\/p>\n

Migrant worker Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54, was executed on Saturday after she was convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, Khairiya bint Hamid Mijlid, with a meat cleaver.
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Geez!
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\nThe maid carried out the killing after she was denied permission to leave the kingdom and return to her family in Indonesia, according to officials in Jakarta.<\/p>\n

I find it hard it was ONLY because her employer was denying her permission to leave.
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\nIn a second case, a court in the Saudi capital Riyadh had sentenced Indonesian maid Darsem to death for murdering her Yemeni employer in December 2007 in what she called an act of self-defense as the employer had tried to rape her.<\/p>\n

Indonesian officials had said she could escape the sentence if she received pardon from the family, who forgave her in January on the condition that she pays the compensation or “diyat” of two million riyals ($533,000).<\/p>\n

The Indonesian government will pay the compensation ahead of July’s deadline, Tene said.<\/p>\n

“The full amount has been transferred to the Indonesian embassy in Riyadh and a team from the Foreign Ministry will be flying there tonight to oversee the payment process. We hope her life will be spared,” he said.<\/p>\n

The women’s cases are the latest in a string of incidents involving Indonesian menial labourers in the Middle East.
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\nHuman rights groups say workers from countries such as Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka<\/strong> underpin the Gulf states’ economies but face extreme forms of exploitation.<\/p>\n

Thank god I live in country where women have rights! ugh!
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\nSource AFP<\/em>
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