No help for maid on death row

No help for maid on death row

BANDUNG: The head of the West Java office of Ministry of
Manpower said his office was not responsible for a local maid
working in the United Arab Emirates who received the death
sentence for adultery.

Tjepi F. Alowie said on Thursday his office merely provided
training for Kartini Karim, 35, who is now awaiting execution.

Kartini, who hails from Karawang regency, was sentenced on
Sunday to be stoned to death.

She had worked as a maid in the United Arab Emirates since
February 1998 and was arrested for adultery after the authorities
discovered she was pregnant with a child conceived out of
wedlock.

Her now five-month-old baby was born in the prison in
Fujairah.

Tjepi maintained that the matter should be the responsibility
of the Indonesian labor company which sent her abroad.

He did not reveal the name of the labor company. (01/25)