Antara News, Friday, December 3, 2010
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar is to leave here for Saudi Arabia on Friday (Dec 3) to discuss migrant worker issues in light of abuse and maltreatment cases that happened in the Middle East country recently.
Apart from visiting Sumiyati, a domestic helper who had to be hospitalized for serious injuries inflicted on her by her Saudi employer, Muhaimin would also meet Saudi authorities and Indonesian officials stationed there to coordinate efforts being made locally to settle her case, a Manpower Ministry official said here Thursday.
The ministry`s director of overseas placement of manpower, Roostiawati, said the Saudi government had so far been quite cooperative with regard to the Sumiyati case and agreed to pay her hospital bills.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian government had already hired a Saudi lawyer to represent Sumiyati in efforts to seek justice for her in accordance with Saudi laws. The lawyer`s fee was 30,000 Saudi riyals or 225 million rupiahs.
"It is hoped that discussions with senior Saudi officials will result in an acceptable settlement of the Sumiyati case which had aroused such a public outrage in Indonesia," Roostiawati said.
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