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Indonesian Embassy welcomes home seven migrant workers from Aleppo
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This photo released by Syrian official news agency SANA shows damaged buildings and cars in the Ansari neighborhood, east Aleppo, Syria, on Dec. 23, 2016. Syrian rebels outside Aleppo on Friday shelled a neighborhood in the northern city, killing three people in the first bombardment since government forces took control of the whole city after opposition fighters in the eastern parts withdrew, state TV reported. (SANA via AP/File)
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he Indonesian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, welcomed back seven Indonesian migrant workers from war-torn Aleppo who wanted to return home. The seven were assisted by Muhamad Akra, a lawyer who works for the Indonesian Embassy in Aleppo.
The seven women came from Serang and Tangerang in Banten, Indramayu and Karawang in West Java, South Sulawesi, and Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara.
One of the migrant workers, Itik Rasja, said she had worked in Aleppo for nine years. She said when she left Indonesia, she was promised a job in Qatar but was instead sent to Syria. She said she had experienced water and power shortages for the last six months in Aleppo.
Her employer often had to buy water from outside Aleppo, she added as quoted by Antara news agency.
The seven migrant workers were: Itik, Nurlaela binti Saodi Orin, Sukania, Warsah Warman, Sabarinah Kamarudin, Rahuni Ginik and Sri Sunarsih binti Hatmin.
Since 2012, the Indonesian Embassy in Damascus had repatriated 12,576 Indonesians from Syria. Indonesian Ambassador to Syria Djoko Harjanto said the government had stopped sending workers to the country since 2011 and to the rest of the Middle East since 2015. His office had discovered cases of human trafficking from Indonesia to Syria, he said. (evi)
