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Indonesia deplores Saudi Arabia's lack of acknowledgement on execution against nationals

Xinhua, April 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indonesia conveyed on Thursday a diplomatic note to protest the lack of acknowledgement of Saudi Arabian authority to execute its citizen working as migrant worker in that country.

The diplomatic note was conveyed to Saudi Arabian ambassador in Indonesia who was summoned to Indonesian Foreign Ministry following the execution against Indonesian migrant worker Karni binti Medi Tarsim earlier in the day. "Indonesian government regrets and disappointed that our representative offices in Riyadh and Jeddah were not officially acknowledged on the exact time and place of the execution against Karni,"a statement released by the ministry said.

Information about the execution was received by Indonesian consulate office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday morning after monitoring jails in Saudi Arabian cities of Madinah and Yanbu where some of Indonesian workers sentenced death penalties were detained at.

In the diplomatic note, Indonesian government conveys its disappointment on the absence of official notification on execution against its citizens.

Indonesia was also not notified by Saudi Arabian authority over the execution against Siti Zaenab, an Indonesian domestic worker, who was executed to death on Tuesday.

The statement said that government has conveyed its deepest condolence to the families of the executed national who stay in Brebes, Central Java province.

Karni was sentenced to death by judges in a state court in Yanbu in March 2013 after she was proved of committing the murder against a toddler in September 2012.

Meanwhile, Zaenab was executed after 16 years since she committed a crime for killing the wife of her employer in 1999. The Madinah court sentenced Zaenab to death in 2001, reinforced by the son of the slain woman in 2013.

Three Indonesian presidents have tried to free Zaenab from death row since 2001 to 2015 by asking pardon from Saudi Arabian ruler and offered compensation fund to families of the victim, but apparently the efforts were fruitless.

Indonesian government under the administration of then- president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono managed to save two Indonesian migrant worker women from death row in Saudi Arabia after paying huge sum of diyat funds to the slain families. Endi