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Indonesia waits for Saudi Arabia to meet its pledge over crane accident
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Deadly incident -- A construction crane, center, is seen collapsed over the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sept.12, 2015. Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin has said the Saudi government has entered the final phase of the compensation settlement process for Indonesian citizens killed or injured by the collapse of the crane. (Associated Press/-)
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eligious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said on Monday that the government would wait for the government of Saudi Arabia to provide compensation for Indonesians killed and injured in the collapse of a crane at the Al-Haram Grand Mosque in Mecca in 2015.
Lukman explained the Indonesian government had completed the administrative documents in regard to Indonesians who were victims of the tragedy as required by the Saudi authorities.
“We asked the government of Saudi Arabia to provide the compensation to us as soon as we completed the required documents but they asked us to wait as they preferred to distribute the money simultaneously with other countries' victims,” Lukman said.
According to Lukman, the governor of Mecca had been appointed to assure compensation was paid to all victims as the Indonesian Consulate General Office in Jeddah continued to monitor the process.
Saudi Arabia has pledged to the Indonesian government that it will provide 1 million riyals (US$266,607) in compensation for every dead or permanently disabled victim of the collapsed crane, and 500,000 riyals for the less badly injured.
Twelve Indonesians were killed during the incident last year while 49 were injured. (dan)
(Read also: Indonesian haj victims feel abandoned by Saudi)
