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65175
Wed, 06/10/2009 - 21:36
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PRESIDENT ORDERS WORKERS PROTECTION CHIEF TO HELP TORTURE VICTIM
Jakarta, June 10 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered National Migrant Workers' Protection and Placement Agency (BNP2TKI) chief Jumhur Hidayat to personally handle the case of Siti Hajar who was tortured in Malaysia.
"The President has ordered me to take the needed action to ensure protection of the victim's rights," Jumhur said in a short message here on Wednesday.
Therefore, he said, he would immediately leave for Malaysia after returning in Jakarta on Wednesday from a BNP2TKI meeting in Manado, North Sulawesi.
He said he had been ordered by the President to visit Siti Hajar and seek justice for her.
Siti Hajar (33), a migrant worker from Limbangan, Garut, West Java, had been tortured while working for an ethnic Chinese family in Lanai Kiara Condominium, Kuala Lumpur.
"She had been hit with a piece of wood and sprayed with hot water. Unable to bear further the cruel treatment by her employer, she, who had worked there since July 2, 2006, finally fled on Monday (June 8)," Jumhur said.
Siti hid behind a roadside tree near the condominium from 01.00 to 08.00 hours before taking a taxi to the Indonesian embassy, he said.
Jumhur said besides being tortured for trivial things she also had not received her salary for the past 34 months totaling 17,000 Malaysian ringgit.
Siti is now being treated at the Medical Center of Universitas Malaya.
Jumhur said he would coordinate with the Indonesian embassy to deal with the case which was similar to that of Nirmala Bonet from East Nusa Tenggara some time ago. ***
"The President has ordered me to take the needed action to ensure protection of the victim's rights," Jumhur said in a short message here on Wednesday.
Therefore, he said, he would immediately leave for Malaysia after returning in Jakarta on Wednesday from a BNP2TKI meeting in Manado, North Sulawesi.
He said he had been ordered by the President to visit Siti Hajar and seek justice for her.
Siti Hajar (33), a migrant worker from Limbangan, Garut, West Java, had been tortured while working for an ethnic Chinese family in Lanai Kiara Condominium, Kuala Lumpur.
"She had been hit with a piece of wood and sprayed with hot water. Unable to bear further the cruel treatment by her employer, she, who had worked there since July 2, 2006, finally fled on Monday (June 8)," Jumhur said.
Siti hid behind a roadside tree near the condominium from 01.00 to 08.00 hours before taking a taxi to the Indonesian embassy, he said.
Jumhur said besides being tortured for trivial things she also had not received her salary for the past 34 months totaling 17,000 Malaysian ringgit.
Siti is now being treated at the Medical Center of Universitas Malaya.
Jumhur said he would coordinate with the Indonesian embassy to deal with the case which was similar to that of Nirmala Bonet from East Nusa Tenggara some time ago. ***
