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View all search resultsDead worker's family asks for govt's help with repatriation from Cambodia
The family of a 19-year-old woman who died while seeking work abroad in Cambodia is seeking official assistance in repatriating her body, but her individual cirmcustance as an unregistered migrant worker has left both the government and the BP3MI with their hands tied.
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Lanniari Hasibuan (right), mother of Nazwa Aliya, 19, who died while working in Cambodia on Aug. 12, 2025, submits a report and request to repatriate her daughter’s body to Sumarni Sinambela, a North Sumatra official with the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Service Center (BP3MI), on Aug. 21 in Medan. (Kompas.com/Goklas Wisely)
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he family of Nazwa Aliya, 19, a migrant worker from North Sumatra who died in Cambodia on Aug. 12, has asked for assistance from the government to repatriate her body from a state hospital in Siem Reap, the northwestern province known for the historic Angkor Wat ruins.
The family says they cannot afford the US$8,500 it would cost to bring Nazwa’s body back to Percut Seituan district, Deli Serdang regency.
Her mother Lanniari Hasibuan has approached the government, the North Sumatra provincial administration as well as the Deli Serdang regency administration to request their assistance in bringing her daughter’s body home.
“I hope the government can help repatriate my daughter’s body from Cambodia because I don’t have the money,” Lanniari said on Thursday, as she was filing a report with the North Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Service Center (BP3MI).
Lanniari said her daughter had aspired to work abroad after graduating from SMK Telkom 2 Medan vocational high school in the provincial capital, and had picked out several potential destination countries, including Cambodia.
“[But] I did not allow my daughter to work in Cambodia because it is dangerous. There have been too many bad incidents there,” she said.
Even so, Nazwa was still keen to work in Cambodia.
