False statement

Referring to the article in The Jakarta Post, Oct. 17, 1995, entitled Lifting of Balabagan's death sentence hailed. The article included a statement reporting that one hundred Indonesian workers died in Saudi Arabia's jails in 1994.

We firmly denounce that baseless issue as untrue. The authorities in Saudi Arabia earlier rejected that false statement and stated that Saudi Arabia's courts always carefully study every case on trial. The law in Saudi Arabia is based on the Islamic Syari'ah which does not discriminate between a Saudi and a non-Saudi.

We expect that this letter will rectify your above mentioned article.

ABDULLAH A. ALIM

Ambassador

Saudi Arabian Embassy

Jakarta