JAKARTA (AFP) - (AFP) - Indonesia will suspend sending domestic helpers to Saudi Arabia after the beheading of a maid convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, a minister said on Wednesday.
"The Indonesian government has decided to impose a moratorium on sending workers to Saudi Arabia," Labour Minister Muhaimin Iskandar was quoted by state news agency Antara as saying.
The report [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - A court has acquitted a Saudi who had been jailed for three years after being found guilty of torturing her Indonesian maid, a local newspaper said on Sunday.
"A court in Medina acquitted on Saturday a Saudi woman who was sentenced in January to three years in prison for severely torturing her Indonesian housemaid," reported Arab News.
In January, Indonesia said it was app [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - A Saudi court in Medina has sentenced a woman to three years in prison for stabbing, beating and burning her Indonesian maid with an iron, Saudi newspapers reported Monday.
The Saudi employer still insisted on Sunday that she was not guilty and had nothing to do with the wounds inflicted on Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, al-Watan daily said.
The woman was sentenced under the n [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - The case against a Saudi womana accused of badly beating her Indonesian maid was postponed Tuesday because the maid is not yet ready to confront the woman, an Indonesian official said.
"Sumiati is not psychologically ready to appear in court," said Diddi Wahyudi, an official of the Indonesian consulate in Jeddah.
Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, was found in early November suffe [...]
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday an inquiry would be launched into a female migrant's suspicious death in Saudi Arabia, a second case of alleged maid abuse in the country.
"We will launch an investigation this week... for the two cases. It's not only to seek justice but to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future," Yudhoyono told reporters [...]
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Friday an inquiry would be launched into a female migrant's suspicious death in Saudi Arabia, a second case of alleged maid abuse in the country.
"We will launch an investigation this week... for the two cases. It's not only to seek justice but to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future," Yudhoyono told reporters [...]
JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday demanded justice for what he described as the "extraordinary torture" of an Indonesian maid in Saudi Arabia.
Sumiati Binti Salan Mustapa, 23, is in a stable condition in a hospital in Medina, where she has been receiving treatment since November 8 for wounds including gashes to her lips and face caused by scissors, officia [...]
JAKARTA (AFP) - This Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday, Malaysian Sharifa Ahmad is determined to make heads turn in her "Made in Indonesia" outfit -- a black flowing chiffon robe with embroidered neckline and matching headscarf hand stitched with Swarovski crystals.
"The dress is perfect for the holy day -- modest yet elegant. I'm definitely going to rock my little black Islamic dress," the 35-year-ol [...]
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