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Rp 4.6b ‘Blood Money’ Payment Spares Maid From Saudi Execution
Ismira Lutfia  | June 26, 2011

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roosplace
12:49pm Jun 30, 2011

'Beautiful' sharia law at work. Wow, can't wait for this crap to be imposed on Indonesia in the near future. Aceh is just the beginning...

Robby.Black
4:13pm Jun 28, 2011

I am not sure of the percentage that I contributed from my tax paying money to the amount paid for the diyat, but if it waas to help a fellow Indonesians from being beheaded after leaving the country hoping to get a better life, I surely would not mind instead of it was used to pay for the legislators' junkets

Serigala-Berbulu-Domba
12:38pm Jun 28, 2011

Mike

If you were to find yourself in Darsem's position, based on the reported circumstances, one would suspect that you would be wholeheartedly in favour of the payment of blood money by the Indonesian Authorities.

As for the ability of Darsem to effect repayment of the blood money to the Indonesian Authorities -  Darsem would be most unlikely to be able to round up the financial resources to reimburse the Indonesian Authorities - if this were the case, under any scenario I could think of, she wouldn't have been in Saudi Arabia working as a maid in the first place!

In terms of use of tax contributions for payment of blood money in view of the reported circumstances ie a male attempting to rape a female and ending up getting killed, I don't have an issue with this. Individuals' tax contributions are fungible, and in any event, individuals not in a position to approve disbursement of government funds, don't get a say in how taxes are spent.


herbert.wippel
8:35pm Jun 27, 2011

I think Indonesia is already successful using Sharia, if you have enough money you are free, whatever you do if not your head is gone. Any juridical system where people at court are treated differently because of money is a unfair system, even though I agree that the Indonesian government paid the money to help her.


muffinman
2:43pm Jun 27, 2011

Ironic too that in a land under the rule of Sharia, money is still the one true omnipresent God. To Mike : I think I'd rather have my tax rupiahs spent on delivering this poor soul from the nightmare she has unwillingly found herself in than on tracking of bank defrauders gone AWOL.


An Indonesian maid convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia has been spared execution by beheading after the Indonesian government paid Rp 4.6 billion ($534,000) in “blood money.”

Foreign Ministry spokesman Michael Tene confirmed the news on Sunday, saying that the compensation, or diyat, to spare the life of Darsem has been paid by officials from the Indonesian Embassy in Riyadh to the head of the court in the Saudi capital.

“The court immediately issued a verdict to repeal her qisas sentence,” Michael said, referring to the reprisal system under Shariah law. “Darsem is now released from the death sentence.” 

The funds were taken from the Foreign Ministry’s protection budget and transferred to the embassy ahead of the July 7 deadline.

Darsem, from Subang, West Java, was convicted in May 2009 and sentenced to death despite her plea that she had killed the victim in self-defense because he had attempted to rape her.

In January, the victim’s family forgave Darsem and agreed to spare her, but only if she could afford to pay the compensation.

Michael said the court would hand over Darsem’s case for review to the Riyadh local administration, which would decide whether Darsem should serve a prison term or be exonerated.

“If she has to serve more time in prison, there is a possibility to appeal for clemency from the king [King Abdullah],” Michael said.  

Anis Hidayah from advocacy group Migrant Care said the diyat payment was “necessary” but should not set a precedent. “It is ironic that Darsem had to pay for the crime she unintentionally committed to defend herself from being raped,” Anis said.

Darsem’s sparing came a week after the beheading of another Indonesian maid, Royati binti Sapubi, prompted to government to announce a moratorium on Indonesian workers heading to Saudi Arabia from Aug. 1.  

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