Indonesia racing against time to save maid on death row

Indonesian authorities are racing against time to save Satinah Binti Jumadi, a housemaid on death row in the central province of Qassim. The deadline to pay the agreed amount is April 3, 2014.
“We are still engaged in negotiations with the family but no progress has been made up to this point,” a senior diplomat from the Indonesian Embassy told Arab News on Tuesday.
A high level delegation comprising senior officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and manpower recruitment arrived in the Kingdom on Saturday to intensify negotiations in the case, the diplomat said.
He said that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had dispatched a senior level delegation to the Kingdom but refused to elaborate on the details of the case. “Every minute is precious and anything can be expected,” he said adding that they hoped for a positive result.
The Indonesian president met with the housemaid’s family in Central Java in Indonesia, the Indonesian media reported. He said he would try to get the execution of the housemaid delayed.
Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad, 41, of Ungaran, Central Java, was sentenced to death in Qassim region after proving guilty of killing her employer Nura Al Garib in Buraidah in 2007 and fleeing with SR37,970.
The deceased’s family initially requested SR10 million in 2011, but the Indonesian government managed to negotiate and reduce the amount to SR7 million, according to Indonesian sources.
But the efforts to collect the SR7 million have fallen short despite calls for help from Indonesian celebrities, public officials and a fundraising campaign on social media.