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Indonesian model home safely after dramatic escape
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Sun, 05/31/2009 6:18 PM | World
Manohara Odelia Pinot, an Indonesian model who was reported to have been kept and abused by her royal Malaysian husband, returned to Indonesia on Sunday, after a dramatic escape from a hotel in Singapore.Speaking to a packed press conference in Jakarta, the Indonesian model of American descent, who speaks fluent English and French, recounted her movie-like escape: she had to hide out in a bathroom to buy time, refuse to be injected against her will and repeatedly press the emergency button in the elevator before the Singaporean police came to help her.
“They [the Singaporean police] brought me to a room. My mother arrived not long afterward and we embraced each other,” she said as quoted by Detik.com.
Daisy Fajarini told El-shinta radio she flew to Singapore after learning that her daughter was in the country.
The Foreign Ministry said the American Embassy was involved in the process of freeing Manohara. “The ministry coordinated with the United States Embassy because Manohara’s biological father is an American national which makes her an American national as well,” Teuku Faizasyah, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson told The Jakarta Post.
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Tami Koestomo — Thu, 06/04/2009 - 9:41am
Tami Koestomo
Of course I sympathize with Manohara's predicament, but in the past days, after following the TV coverage about her and her mother, I can't suppress the doubts that are arising. If Manohara's mother, Daisy Fajarina, really had the best interests of her daughter at heart, she would have gone straight to a renowned hospital in Jakarta upon arrival in Indonesia (or, better yet, a medical center in Singapore after leaving the hotel she escaped from) to subject Manohara to a thorough physical examination. For the results of this important examination might be of great help for Manohara in strengthening her planned legal case against the Kelantan prince, her husband. Instead, ever since they returned to Indonesia, Daisy Fajarina and Manohara held numerous press conferences, and on one occasion Manohara was dressed up to the hilt in yellow and gold finery, and was almost all smiles during the interviews on this occasion. Please pardon me for thinking so, but is that the way someone who has suffered through incessant sexual, mental and physical abuse really behaves? It does seem that, aside from this being a very cheap plot to gain public sympathy, Manohara's mother is also milking her daughter's numerous assets as well as this situation for all that it's worth. If that is indeed the case, I pity Manohara, the poor puppet, all the more.
Tami Koestomo, Bogor, West Java.