Gatot Abdullah Mansyur, BNP2TKI Chairman:
'Blood money' is determined by individual sentiment

April 29, 2014

SATINAH binti Jumadi Ahmad in the end managed to escape her death sentence. The Indonesian domestic worker in Saudi Arabia who was found guilty of killing her employer, was released after the Indonesian government paid Rp21 billion in diyat or blood money to the victim's family. But the huge amount has triggered a controversy. Some regard it as a failure of the government's diplomacy with the Saudi government. The blood money is seen to be excessiv

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