RI migrant worker faces death sentence

JAKARTA: An Indonesian migrant worker, Sundarti Suprianto, could be given the death penalty when a Singapore court delivers its verdict on Friday.

The court will decide whether she is guilty of multiple charges of murdering both her Singaporean employers, Angie Ng and her two-year-old daughter Crystal, then burning their apartment and illegally using her employer's ATM card in June 2003.

Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore M.S. Hidayat told The Jakarta Post the embassy had provided a lawyer for Sundarti, 24, and arranged for her mother to visit her in Singapore.

Hidayat said there were about 45,000 Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore, and four of them were standing trial with a possibility of the death sentence. --JP