RI migrant worker faces death sentence

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