JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Lilik binti Mas’oud, a female migrant worker from Indonesia, has escaped the death penalty after a local court in Saudi Arabia acquitted her of the crime of “zina” (sex outside marriage) and involved in murdering another Indonesian female migrant worker namely Aisyah.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s Director for Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Muhammad Iqbal confirmed the report to the press on Monday (May. 25).
According to Iqbal, Lilik has been brought to Indonesia and she’s now back with her family in Banyuwangi, East Java, after finishing her three years jail term in Saudi.
Iqbal, moreover, claimed that the Indonesian government has released 22 Indonesian migrant workers, including Lilik, during the first five months of 2015. (haryantosuharman@yosefardi.com)