Migrant worker's baby handed over to relative

MATARAM: After being sheltered by the Social Services Ministry in Jakarta for four months, a 16-month-old baby girl of a late Indonesian migrant worker was handed over to her relatives in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on Saturday.

"The baby has been handed over to her relative. We will monitor the baby, Cinta Ariani, until she is 18," Bachruddin, head of the province's social services and population agency told The Jakarta Post.

Cinta was handed over to her grandmother Nuraini in a ceremony at the social services and population agency office in Mataram on Saturday.

The baby's mother, Haerum, and her baby were in a ship accident on their way home on July 1. Haerum died after being treated at Sultana Amina Hospital in Malaysia for five days.

Haerum had been working in Malaysia for three years and was married to a Bangladeshi man. -JP