Remains of TKI flown home

Remains of TKI flown home

CAIRO: The remains of migrant worker (TKI) Maesaroh Binti Slamet Sastro, 35, was flown home on Friday, almost four months after she died on Dec. 18 at Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

Indonesian Ambassador to Egypt Bachtiar Aly said on Friday the body was flown by Malaysian Airlines from Cairo, Egypt, to her hometown in Ngawi, East Java.

"At the request of Maesaroh's family, her body was flown to Indonesia on Thursday night and is scheduled to arrive at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport ... on Friday," he was quoted by Antara.

Bachtiar said Maesaroh's remains was flown to Cairo on Apr. 8. No information was given as to the cause of her death.

Maesaroh arrived in Palestine three years ago to work as domestic help, but no reports were available as to her passage to Palestine.

It is believed that she was one of hundreds of illegal Indonesian migrant workers sent to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, which offer higher salaries than those for similar positions in Indonesia. -- Antara