Indonesia Still Waiting for Family's Forgiveness to Free Satinah

Jakarta (Antara) - Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Djoko Suyanto said Indonesian migrant worker Satinah will be freed soon from death sentence for murdering her employer, but the victim's family still had not forgiven her. Minister Djoko said during a press conference at his office here on Tuesday the Indonesian government had paid 7 million riyals or around Rp21 billion of amends or "blood money" to free Satinah. "Principally, we already paid 7 million riyals of amends and it was received by the Saudi Arabian Court, now we will have to wait for a month or two until all the family members of the victim gave their forgiveness," Djoko noted. Djoko explained that it was taking a long time to get the forgiveness from the family as they were a big family with seven sub-family members, and according to Saudi Arabia's law, all of them had to forgive Satinah. This was one of the terms to be freed from the sentence. "If one of them does not give his forgiveness, then our amends clause will not work," he said. "Hopefully, we will get good news within a month or two, as we have fulfilled all of the requirements," Djoko added. (*)