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Issues of the day: RI regrets execution of another worker
Karni binti Medi Tarsim - AntaraApril 17, p1Barely a day after news hit that the Saudi Arabian government had carried out the execution of an Indonesian worker without giving prior notice to family members and the Indonesian government, another Indonesian was executed for an unpardonable crime
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Karni binti Medi Tarsim - Antara
April 17, p1
Barely a day after news hit that the Saudi Arabian government had carried out the execution of an Indonesian worker without giving prior notice to family members and the Indonesian government, another Indonesian was executed for an unpardonable crime.
The head of the Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI), Nusron Wahid, said he regretted the lack of notification from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia before the execution of migrant worker Karni binti Medi Tarsim on Thursday morning Saudi time.
'There isn't a formal rule stating that if a foreigner is to be executed, their country of origin should be informed beforehand. But the proper etiquette would hope that was done,' Nusron said on Thursday.
Your comments:
It is so sad to read about the Indonesian women who were beheaded. Who knows what their lives were like, how much suffering they endured or whether they were given a fair trial.
It makes me so very sad. I don't think the death penalty can be justified under any circumstance, but this is particularly upsetting.
Josofia
Will Indonesia stop issuing Saudi work visas for its citizens? Will those already there be told to return home?
No, because it helps President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo bring in foreign currency and keep unemployment down.
If maids in Saudi Arabia that are getting beaten up and abused every day stick a blade in their attacker they'll lose their head.
Bruce
What I can't understand is why Indonesia sends all these poor and helpless workers to the Middle East to be abused and executed. The Indonesian government is fully to blame for putting its citizens in harm way.
John Mendes
The government has an obligation to make sure they are treated properly and injustices are investigated.
Obviously these poor women didn't commit murder in a vacuum but were probably abused and pushed to acts they wouldn't normally consider.
Anonycom
Disgraceful that a young woman was no doubt abused to the point of committing murder. It is hopeless inaction from the government. Indonesians should be ashamed that you support this. Her blood is on your hands.
Farmer
In a country like Saudi Arabia, supported by the Americans irrespective of its appalling human rights records and practice, the only way to make it adhere to proper bilateral and international codes of conduct is to ban the citizens of your country from working there.
The lure of money tends to blind people who just focus on the monetary gain.
Governments of many countries succumb to Saudi Arabia because they are provided access to low-cost funding and this compromises their ability to stand up against any wrongdoings committed by the country.
IB Saw
It is good to see a country that has the courage to uphold its sovereignty and carry out executions.
Tim
If murder is wrong then it should be wrong for the state to commit it as well. Human life is precious, so the state should not be able to kill in vengeance.
Even liberals such as myself have to accept that not everyone can be rehabilitated.
But the worst offenders should be jailed rather than murdered by the state.
Lasem Benny
There are huge differences between the cases of the Indonesian citizens who were handed down the death penalty in Saudi Arabia and the foreigners given the death penalty in Indonesia.
Those drugs convicts destroyed the lives of many people, mostly teenagers and young adults.
Meanwhile, those Indonesians on death row in Saudi Arabia were charged for entirely different reasons.
They killed in self-defense after they were abused by their employers.
Nanda Mardas saputra
I find it interesting that some people seem more offended by the lack of notice than by the brutal killing itself. At least the Saudis got on with it.
Compare that with the long, drawn-out, inhumane wait that the guests on Nusakambangan prison island are put through while lawyers and politicians play games.
Themis
A first step for Indonesia to save its own citizens is to abolish the death penalty, if not entirely then at least applied only for crimes that would be internationally regarded as extremely serious such as serial murders. Shooting drug mules is entirely inappropriate.
Jagera
Truly regrettable that the death penalty had to be enforced on these women, but hopefully Indonesia will respect Saudi Arabia's sovereignty and dignity in this matter.
Yuchan
Nobody sent these workers there. They themselves chose to go to these countries, either on their own arrangement or through Indonesian agents. And you know why they chose to go there?
Surprise: to find employment or to get better pay.
Your country is just big on talk and little on action to provide adequate work for able bodied citizens.
Wandering Star
I don't see how Indonesians can complain. Unfortunate as it is, the Saudi Arabia is just following its own legal process-flawed as it may be.
Imagine their ire if the Indonesian government would risk self-humiliation just for the sake of their nationals.
PJ Bali
