Mahfudz said they had no longer enough time so that the commission approved the budget for paying the `diyat` or fine amounting to Rp4.6 billion to the Saudi court.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The House of Representatives (DPR)`s Commission on foreign affairs has approved a budget of Rp4.6 billion to pay a fine for the acquittal of Darsem from a death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
"We Commission I agreed the use of the budget by the foreign ministry to free the Indonesian migrant worker from the execution," Commission I chairman Mahfudz Sidik said during a hearing with Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa here on Monday.
The Saudi government is to execute death convict Darsem next July 7, 2011.
Mahfudz said they had no longer enough time so that the commission approved the budget for paying the `diyat` or fine amounting to Rp4.6 billion to the Saudi court.
Darsem, who hailed from Subang, West Java, has been forgiven by the family of the victim. But she should pay a fine of Rp4.6 billion in order to be acquitted from the punishment.
Last Saturday, the Saudi authority beheaded Ruyati, an migrant worker who was found guilty of murdering the wife of her employer in Saudi Arabia.
In court, Ruyati confessed she killed the wife of her Saudi employer, Khairiya bint Hamid Mijlid, on January 12, 2010 by striking her repeatedly on the head with a meat chopper and stabbing her in the neck.
There are still 22 Indonesian migrant workers who are in the death row in Saudi Arabia.(*)
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