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Indonesian Maid Sumiati Tortured for Alleged Poor Work
Jakarta Globe | November 23, 2010


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Xpat
12:19am Nov 25, 2010

Its sad & shameful that this goes on and nothing is done after the news dies down. Shame on all of us as humanity as the Saudis/Kuwaitis etc are held in high esteem by the western elite. Each one of us should email/write to the western human rights organizations to put pressure on these countries. The western human rights organizations seem so selective in their activity.

BajingLoncat
6:10pm Nov 24, 2010

@peterR: Bendera has been speculatively linked to would-be president Prabowo Subiantio (former son-in-law of Suharto), who was in the past known as the leader of the military's green (right-wing Islam) generals and is not unfamiliar with the use of civilian militia (and preman) groups to criticize/destabilize the government. Seems unlikely that Bendera itself would be getting funds from Saudi Arabia, but its dalang (whoever is pulling the group's strings) may be unwilling to offend the Arab world. As for the FPI, it has staged protests (including outside the Saudi Embassy) against the abuse of maids in Saudi Arabia.

jetset24
4:59pm Nov 24, 2010

@DasMonk...Perhaps so but free speech is here to stay that they (in the Middle East) are not entitled to such luxury and not in this life time.

There are far worse comments on here on this particular issue alone that would make your head spin.


peterR
6:58am Nov 24, 2010

Can the JG not get some comment from the organisations who are always immediately up-in-arms when there are reported cases of abuse in Malaysia, but in this case have remained silent?

Are organisations such as Bendera receiving funding from regimes such as the Saudis? And if so, what other organisations receive funds from them? Do they fund groups like the FPI and other terrorist organisations with a view to destabilising Indonesia and promote extremism? Do they pay individuals in high places, who are in positions that allow them to throw their support behind such as the FPI and thus promote them?

DasMonk
6:55am Nov 24, 2010

My maid is often reckless.. Do I beat her?? NO

Jetset... nasty comments, but the govt will do nothing whilst Saudi funds significant poli - religious organisation here. The way forward is a seperation of state and religion.


Jakarta. A Saudi Arabian woman has admitted to burning her Indonesian maid, Sumiati, with an electric iron and other forms of torture because she was “reckless” in performing her duties, it was reported on Tuesday.

The Saudi Gazette said the Saudi Investigation and Prosecution Bureau (IPB) had formally charged the employer, who was not identified, and sent her to the General Prison in Madina.

A source close to the IPB, the Gazette reported, said Sumiati had alleged that she had been abused over a period of three months.

“Her body was burned on many places, both legs were almost motionless, some parts of her skin on her head were removed and there were marks of old wounds on her body including skin loss on her lips and head, a fractured middle finger and a cut near an eye.”

The paper quoted Sultan Bin Dhahim, Head of the Lawyers’ Committee in Madina, as saying the employer had also been charged with premeditation to commit physical assault.

He said that such cases of abuse in Saudi Arabia were rare — claims that have previously been rejected as false by a number of migrant worker organizations.

The Gazette also reported that the employer’s son had initially contacted police to report the abuse.

“He also said that his mother tried to deceive the police by saying Mustapa had tried to commit suicide.”