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Friday, July 1, 2011

Indonesia bans employees from Saudi when maid's execution

Indonesia has banned its voters from operating in Saudi Arabia when an Indonesian maid was beheaded for murdering her Saudi employer with a meat cleaver.



Ruyati binti Sapubi, 54, was convicted of murdering her Saudi employer, Khairiya bint Hamid Mijlid, when she was denied permission to depart the dominion and come to her family in Indonesia, the Telegraph reports, citing officers in Jakarta.

The beheading has renewed complaints against Indonesia's government over the shortage of protection for its voters operating overseas.

The ban mainly affects domestic employees, who compose regarding seventy per cent of the one.2 million Indonesian migrant employees within the Gulf state, Reuters reports.

"I determined to use a moratorium on sending Indonesian employees to Saudi Arabia, to be in result on August one, however ranging from these days, steps toward this have begun," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday on a live TV broadcast.

The moratorium can apply "until Indonesia and Saudi Arabia will return to an agreement to allow rights necessary for Indonesian employees," he added.

Indonesia, that has itself return underneath hearth for its use of the death sentence — allotted by firing squad — formally protested to Riyadh over the execution and recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Twenty-three alternative Indonesians currently face execution in Saudi Arabia, where individuals convicted of murder are beheaded in public.

Saudi Arabia apologized for failing to tell Jakarta of the beheading, the Telegraph reports.

Yudhoyono promised reform of the system for sending employees abroad, though Reuters reports that they thought of a valuable supply of foreign exchange reserves and facilitate cut back unemployment in Southeast Asia's prime economy.

Indonesian rights activists, meanwhile, demanded the scrapping of the death penalty in that country.

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