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At least 32 migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) have died at their respective workplaces in the first five months of this year due to various reasons, ranging from illnesses and snake bites to torture, according to the Kupang Migrant Workers’ Placement, Protection and Monitoring Agency (BP3TKI.
According to Migrant CARE, Zaini was not provided adequate legal assistance during his trial, only a translator who the NGO claimed was not neutral and had allegedly talked Zaini into confessing to a crime he had not committed.
Another family is grieving over the death of a migrant worker; this time, by execution. Muhammad Zaini Misrin of Madura, East Java, was beheaded on Sunday following a trial in Saudi Arabia in 2008 that found him guilty of murdering his employer, a charge he had denied. Human rights advocates have urged the government to issue a diplomatic protest against the kingdom, against which Indonesia still has a moratorium on sending migrant workers, pending a better guarantee of their welfare.
