The General's Maids

The wife of a retired police general has been charged with keeping 17 domestic workers prisoner in her house in Bogor. Her husband has not been named a suspect.

March 4, 2014

Agus Lewier stood before Brig. Gen. (ret.) Mangisi Situmorang's house, a woman's photograph in his hand, and knocked on door of the outer fence. No answer. He kept banging, but still there was no response. "I'm worried about her fate. I want to take her home," said Agus, 59, referring to the woman in the picture. It was his wife, Marlina.

Marlina, Agus said, had been working with the Situmorang family. For almost an hour on Tuesday last week, the fat

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