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Two Indonesian Workers Freed From Saudi Death Row
January 19, 2012

Two Indonesian migrant workers who were spared from the death penalty in Saudi Arabia arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Thursday. Neneng Sunengsih binti Mamih Ujan (left), who was accused of killing her employer Two Indonesian migrant workers who were spared from the death penalty in Saudi Arabia arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Thursday. Neneng Sunengsih binti Mamih Ujan (left), who was accused of killing her employer's child, and Mesi binti Dama Idon, who was accused of witchcraft, were pardoned by the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz. (Antara Photo/Ismar Patrizki)
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Two more Indonesian migrant workers who have been freed from the death row in Saudi Arabia arrived back in Jakarta on Thursday. 

Lisna Yoeliani, the deputy chief of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Placement and Protection Agency (BNP2TKI), said the two women arrived on Thursday afternoon.  

Neneng Sunengsih binti Mamih Ujan, a native of Sukabumi, West Java, was arrested by Al Jouf Police in May 2011 for allegedly killing the baby daughter of her employer, for whom she had worked for 11 months. She was also accused of trying to escape.  

The Indonesian embassy in Riyadh appointed a Saudi lawyer, Naseer Al Dandani, to help free Neneng by convincing the judges that the worker must not be blamed for the baby’s death because she was not a competent person to take care of a seriously ill baby.   

There was also no strong evidence that Neneng had killed the baby, while the Asraf family did not allow an autopsy.   

According to Lisna, the chairman of the presidentially appointed Migrant Workers’ Task Force, Maftuh Basyuni, personally appealed to Saudi authorities on Neneng’s behalf when he was in Riyadh on Dec. 24.   

The other worker, Mesti binti Dama Idon, was sentenced to death by the Saqra Public Court in March 2011 following her confession that she had bewitched her employers. 

She, however, later retracted this, saying that she had been pressured during the police interrogation. 

After filing an appeal with the help of the Indonesian embassy in Riyadh, her death sentence was reduced to a 10-year imprisonment and 500 lashes.  Earlier this month, Mesi was released by order of the Saudi King.   

Last month, the government also saved two female migrant workers from execution in Saudi. Bayanah binti Banhawi, 29, arrived back in Indonesia on Dec. 28 and Jamilah binti Abidin Rofi’i alias Juariyah Binti Idin Ropi’i arrived on Dec. 29. 

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