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