Cipanas, West Java (ANTARA News) - Moh Jumhur Hidayat, head of the National Migrant Workers Placement and Protection Agency (BNP2TKI) has refuted a recent report that an Indonesian housemaid was raped by a minister in Malaysia.

"There is written confirmation from Mrs. Rubingah (the migrant worker) herself that she had never been raped while working in Malaysia," Jumhur said Friday on the sidelines of a BNP2TKI national working meeting here January 5-7, 2011.

A staffer of the agency`s Semarang office , AB Rachman, had met Rubingah at her home in Pagelak village, Madukara sub district, Banjarnegara District, Central Java, and obtained her statement in writing.

"I have reported Mrs. Rubingah`s explanation to Mr. Muhaimin (manpower and transmigration minister)," Jumhur said.

Jumhur urged all parties to be careful and make a check and recheck effort to confirm it because it concerned somebody`s integrity.

Rubingah reportedly said that he had worked in a Malaysian minister`s house in Negeri Sembilan for eight years since 1999.

"It was a fine workplace, no rape ever happened," she said as quoted by AB Rachman.

Rubingah who is married to Sukirman said she was very sad when she heard about the baseless report concerning her.
(Uu.F001/HAJM/P003)

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