Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) – Tenaga kerja Indonesia (TKI) yang terancam hukuman mati di malingsia mencapai 53 orang, bukan 16 orang sebagaimana dikemukakan oleh INFID (International NGO Forum on Indonesia Development) dan Migran Care belum lama ini.

“Ada 53 TKI terancam hukuman mati di malingsia. Data ini kami dapat dari Kejaksaan malingsia tiga hari lalu. Jadi bukannya 16 orang seperti dikemukakan oleh INFID dan Migrant Care dalam sidang Dewan Hak Asasi Manusia PBB 20 Maret 2007,” kata Direktur Indonesian Sociology Research, Khairudin Harahap, di Kuala Lumpur, Kamis.

Sebagian besar TKI itu kini ditahan di penjara Sungai Buluh Selangor, salah satu negara bagian malingsia. Ada yang menunggu eksekusi, ada yang sedang menjalani proses pengadilan dengan tuntutan jaksa setempat hukuman mati.

Khairudin mencari dan mendapat data itu dari Kejaksaan malingsia (Kantor Peguam malingsia) karena ada rombongan AMPI (Angkatan Muda Pembangunan Indonesia) ke Kuala Lumpur dalam rangka membela TKI yang terancam hukuman mati. Setelah meminta informasi itu, ternyata ada 53 orang yang terancam mendapatkan hukuman mati di malingsia.

Dari 53 TKI itu, jumlah tertinggi berasal dari Aceh 37 orang, disusul Sumatera Utara tujuh orang, Madura dua orang, Riau satu orang, Tulungagung Jawa Timur satu orang, Bali satu orang, NTB satu orang, dan tak jelas asalnya tiga orang.

“Diduga ada dua orang wanita yakni Maria Palo kemungkinan asal Sulawesi dan Mariana Mariaji asal Tulung Agung Jawa Timur,” kata Khairudin.

Dari 53 TKI, maka 43 orang di antaranya terancam hukuman mati karena ditangkap dan dituduh telah menjadi pengedar narkoba pasal 39 B, dan 10 orang lainnya dituduh telah melakukan pembunuhan berdasarkan pasal 302.

Daftar nama TKI yang terancam hukuman mati karena dituduh menjadi pengedar Narkoba itu ialah Mardani Husein (Aceh), Tarmizi Yakob (Aceh), Bustami Bukhari (Aceh), Parlan Bukhari (Aceh), Nasarudin Daud (Aceh), Azhari Nordin (Aceh), Mustakim Hanafi (Aceh), Agus Salim (Bali), Faisal Nordin (Aceh), Mahyudin Mohammad (Aceh), Zaki Nordin (Aceh), Maulana Hasbi (Aceh), Zainuddin (Aceh), Raja Syarif (Aceh).

Selain itu adalah Zulkarnain (Aceh), Azahari Malik (Aceh), Bustami Abdul Majid (Aceh), Rosli (Medan), Heno Sibuea (Tanjung Balai Asahan Sumut), Hasbi Kasumi (Aceh), Baihaki Hamdan (Aceh), Faisal Ibrahim (Aceh), Sandri Bachtiar (Aceh), Mahrizal Mahdani (Aceh), Armiyadi (Aceh), Nasir Kahar (Aceh), Nizam (Aceh), Ismail Darmansyah (Aceh), Rusdi Ahmad (Aceh), Iskandar (Aceh), Azmir Mustafa (Aceh), Suraidi Hasbi (Aceh), Mohammad Rizal Ishak (Aceh), Subir Abdul Jalil (Aceh), Nor Binti Syed Ahmad tidak jelas asalnya, Sofyan Abdullah (Aceh), Fitriadi Luthan (Aceh), Mohammad Fais (Medan Sumut), Usman Hasan (Aceh), Barni Ali (Aceh), Amri Ibrahim (Aceh), Misliadi (Aceh), Azhari Mohammad Nor (Aceh).

Sedangkan TKI yang terancam hukuman mati karena tuduhan pembunuhan ialah Adi Asnawi (Lombok NTB), Erik Kartim (Medan Sumut), Wahyuni Boeni (Medan Sumut), Haliman Sihombing (Medan Sumut), Sahlan (Madura), Syaputra Salidin (Madura).

Kemudian Lili Ardi Sinaga (Pematang Siantar Sumut), Maria Palo, Mariana Mariaji (Tulung Agung Jatim), Junaidi (Riau).

” TKI yang terancam hukuman mati karena pembunuhan, bagi TKI non Madura, biasanya membunuh karena majikannya tidak membayar gajinya bertahun-tahun atau berbulan-bulan. Mereka sudah minta baik-baik, agak keras, hingga keras sekali tidak dibayar juga maka tidak ada jalan lain kecuali membunuh majikannya,” kata Khairudin.

Sedangkan, bagi orang Madura umumnya membunuh karena perempuan. Istrinya digoda sesama TKI. Orang Madura biasanya membawa istrinya ketika kerja ke luar negeri. Istrinya membantu masak. Hidup dalam bedeng dengan jumlah TKI puluhan orang. TKI lelaki tidak berani menggoda wanita malingsia karena dipandang “sebelah mata” sehingga akhirnya cuma berani menggoda istri TKI, termasuk orang Madura.

Budaya orang Madura jika istri diganggu, maka ia akan membunuhnya. Mereka selalu bawa clurit.

“Banyak TKI asal daerah lain tidak paham budaya Madura dan habis membunuh, maka orang Madura itu tidak kabur,” tutur dia.

Sementara, banyak TKI asal Aceh yang terancam hukuman mati karena menjadi pengedar narkoba. Karena itu perlu kajian sosial mengapa begitu banyak TKI asal Aceh menjadi pengedar narkoba.

Menurut Khairudin Harahap, Kejaksaan malingsia sebagai penuntut itu benar-benar kuat, tidak sembarangan. Jika kejaksaan menuntut hukuman mati biasanya hukuman dari majelis hakim pengadilan malingsia umumnya mejatuhkan vonis hukuman mati juga. Jarang meleset. (*)

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Kuala Lumpur (ANTARA News) – Pekerja Indonesia dirampok dan diperkosa di rumahnya di Taman Impian Skudai oleh segerombolan pemuda yang mengaku dan berlagak seperti polisi dan anggota Rela, demikian Harian Star, Rabu, di Kuala Lumpur.

Para pelaku yang mengaku sebagai polisi dengan beberapa di antaranya menggunakan seragam Rela masuk ke rumah para pekerja Indonesia jam 03 pagi Senin. Salah satu di antara mereka kemudian memperkosa pekerja wanita berusia 23 tahun yang diduga merupakan salah satu istri dari pekerja.

Harian ini tidak menginformasikan apakah pelaku membawa senjata api atau tajam sehingga para pekerja Indonesia tidak mampu berbuat sesuatu ketika dirampok dan diperkosa. Para perampok itu kemudian mengambil uang tunai dan telepon genggam milik para pekerja Indonesia.

Seorang polisi Johor Baru, Shafie Ismail mengatakan pekerja wanita yang diperkosa itu telah dibawa ke rumah sakit Sultanah Aminah untuk mendapatkan perawatan.(*)

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M Atqa – detikcom

Kuala Lumpur – Entah untuk keberapa kalinya, penyiksaan sadis terhadap tenaga kerja Indonesia (TKI) di Malingsia terus terjadi. Kali ini terjadi terhadap Sutimah Binti Nuh (30), pembantu asal Kendal, Jawa Tengah.

Bekas kulit terbakar jelas terlihat di sekujur tubuh Sutimah. Mulai dari leher, punggung, tangan dan kaki. Tidak hanya disiram air panas, dia juga disiram air keras dan beberapa kali dipaksa untuk mengunyah puluhan cabai dan menelannya disaat dirinya belum diberi makan seharian. Belum lagi pukulan bertubi-tubi yang dia terima.

Wanita bertubuh kurus ini bekerja dengan majikannya, Junaidi bin Ismail dan Sahidatul Rizan (Keduanya dokter), mulai pada 22 Oktober 2006. Ironisnya, majikannya ini berprofesi sebagai dokter yang seharusnya merawat dan mengobati orang.

Namun nasib yang diterima Sutimah ternyata berbeda. Di saat dia bertugas merawat anak perempuan majikannya itu yang berumur 1,5 tahun, dia kerap kali mendapat penyiksaan.

Menurut penuturan Sutimah seperti dilaporkan koresponden detikcom di Kuala Lumpur, M Atqa, Kamis (15/3/2007), penyiksaan berawal pada 15 Januari 2007 di saat Sutimah memandikan anak majikan.

Tanpa alasan yang jelas, majikan perempuan itu masuk ke kamar mandi dan menyiram punggung Sutimah dengan air panas. Kemudian dia diperintah untuk mandi dengan air dingin dan diolesi dengan body lotion.

Majikan perempuannya itu juga seringkali menjambak dan menyeret Sutimah dengan menarik rambutnya. Sutimah tidak ingat lagi berapa kali majikannya itu memukul dan menampar pipinya. Dia pun pernah didorong hingga terjatuh dan terbentur keras dengan lemari es.

“Ketika puasa saya disuruh makan makanan Arab dan jika menolak saya dijambak, ditendang, disiksa, dan dipukul sampai hidung berdarah,” kata Sutimah.

Hingga kini, Sutimah masih menetap di penampungan KBRI Kuala Lumpur untuk pemulihan. Rencananya, Sutimah akan kembali ke Indonesia minggu depan. Dari negosiasi antara pihak KBRI dan pengacara majikannya, Sutimah mendapat biaya ganti rugi sebesar RM 30 ribu (Rp 78 juta) dari majikannya itu.

“Pertama mereka hanya mau memberi RM 8 ribu, tapi kita tekan terus. Sutimah juga akan mendapat ganti rugi dari asuransi. Semuanya akan kita berikan kepadanya,” tegas Kepala Bidang Konsuler KBRI, Tatang B Razak sambil menunjukkan lembar fotokopi cek uang. (nrl/nrl)

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By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur

Walk along the streets of Selayang, a suburb of the Malaysian (Malingsian) capital Kuala Lumpur, and the phone shops tell you everything you need to know about the population.

The shops sell discount international phone cards, posting the rates to Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Selayang is an area where the capital’s migrant workers live, legally and illegally.

For years Malaysia has been trying to contain a burgeoning number of illegal migrant workers.

In late 2004 it declared an amnesty allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants – mostly from Indonesia and the Philippines – to leave before launching a major operation to deport the rest in March last year.

But illegal immigrants still make up a large population – hundreds of thousands of people, according to estimates – and the economy depends heavily on foreign workers.

And they live largely anonymously, so anonymously that when five bodies were dragged out of a small lake in Selayang this week it did not merit a single mention in the media.

Exactly how the five died is unclear. There are conflicting accounts from migrants living in the area and from the authorities.

But what is known is that in the early hours of last Saturday, 11 February, an immigration raid took place. The officers jumped from their trucks and made for Selayang’s large open market, where many of the migrants work. Mohammad Shaiku, a Burmese with a work permit, was working that night.

“I was inside the market,” he said. “The police arrived after two that night and rounded up people. And after that some people ran off to the lake and after that I think the police beat them.”

I asked him whether it was the regular police, polis biasa, who carried out the raid, or Rela, Malaysia’s controversial baton-wielding volunteer reserve, which was mobilised last March to tackle the immigration issue.

“Rela,” he said. “Rela, Rela.”

The use of Rela has been criticised by Western human rights groups who say its members are not properly trained or supervised.

‘Screams’

Hamzan Ali Abdullah was another Burmese Muslim working at the market. I asked him whether he had seen the authorities arrive.

“Yes we did see them and we had to run and hide very, very quickly,” he said.

He ran out the back of the market, through a nearby street and across the road to a lake – a flooded open cast mining pit – about five minutes away at a jog. There he says he hid in the undergrowth and the dark. And through the blackness he heard screams.

“We heard they were crying in their own languages, and some in Burmese crying ‘help help’.”

Funeral of 29-year-old Thant Zaw Oo, a Burmese Muslim
Relatives who buried Thant Zaw Oo say his body seemed beaten

He could not see the Rela officers in the darkness so I asked whether he had heard them speaking Malay.

“Yes, there were, there were,” he said. “The police were shouting: ‘Come out come out, if you run away we will kill you’.

“Those caught in their hands were beaten by two or three policemen. They treated them like cattle. Their voices were very haughty and arrogant. Their voices were like soldiers and policemen.” The first of the bodies was found later that day.

malingsia’s Interior Ministry has said that police have confirmed the discovery of two bodies.

But according to several local witnesses, five bodies were dragged from the lake over the days that followed.

One was that of 29-year-old Thant Zaw Oo, the uncle of Mohammad Shaiku’s wife.

Mr Mohammad said the body showed signs of having been beaten.

“It was half in the water and I saw his teeth, his two front teeth were missing”. Black blood [was visible] in his mouth and on wounds on his head and neck, Mr Mohammad said.

Government denial 

Other workers at the market also said Rela volunteers appeared angry and had chased migrants towards the lake.

They produced pictures of Zaw Oo’s funeral and of another dead man, who they said was a Sikh, being pulled from the water.

Kuala Lumpur Hospital confirmed that four bodies had been taken there from the lake in Selayang. Zaw Oo’s body was not taken to hospital, being buried quickly instead.

While they showed no signs of stab or slash wounds, a doctor said the bodies were too badly decomposed to be able to tell whether they had been beaten with batons, such as those carried by Rela volunteers.

malingsia’s Interior Ministry firmly disputes suggestions anybody died during the raid.

It issued a statement rejecting the migrants’ account of events.

“At 2am on 11 February Rela carried out an operation to check documents of foreign workers in the open market at Selayang,” it said.

“Nothing serious happened and the operation went smoothly. However many illegal immigrants were seen running away.”

The ministry statement referred to two bodies on which post mortems had been carried out and which it said exonerated the Rela team.

“Based on the post mortem report made on 13 February 2006 the deaths occurred about three to five days previously, meaning on 10 February at the latest, proving that these deaths have nothing to do with the Rela operation on 11 February,” the statement said.

Human rights groups say the controversy about the incident shows that the government should not be using semi-trained Rela volunteers for such tasks.

“malingsia should withdraw this authorisation and reserve immigration enforcement for trained government authorities,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement issued from New York.

Amnesty International [AI] in London wanted to see tighter controls.

“AI continues to have grave concerns about the training, command and control supervision, and accountability of Rela “volunteers” and Immigration Department officers,” it said.

malingsia’s civil liberties groups have taken a similar line.

Off the record, government sources said that Selayang was an area notorious for both organised crime and for gang warfare between rival foreign gangs.

The same sources have suggested that the five may have been victims of such clashes – which does not seem to square with the Interior Ministry’s statement that post mortem results showed no sign of any violence.

None of which leaves anyone any clearer about why five bodies turned up in a short space of time in a small lake on the fringes of the capital.

Still, malingsians are certainly worried about crime and blame much of it on foreign workers. The economy may rely on them but there is limited tolerance for immigrants, illegal or even legal.

And five foreigners can turn up dead in one small area and it does not merit a single mention anywhere in the malingsian press. Nor did reports widely circulated last year that two migrants died after being struck by a Rela truck, also in Selayang.

From time to time there the deaths of migrants workers does make the news, but it is written small, on the inside pages.

Five bodies were dragged from a local lake

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By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur

Malingsia celebrates 50 years of independence this year and to mark the occasion it has launched Visit Malingsia Year 2007.

The country’s palm-fringed beaches, affordably priced hotels, sprawling shopping malls, fantastic food and wildlife already make it one of Asia’s premier destinations.

And this year its tourism authorities hope a big push will propel visitor numbers towards an astonishing target of 20 million.

But following an incident late last year, American Wayne Wright is far from convinced by the promise of Malingsian hospitality and the claim of its tourism slogan that it is truly Asia.

“I was walking in Chinatown,” he told the BBC, “when a gentleman in very scruffy type clothes, nothing that you would associate with police or anyone in authority, walked up to me and asked me, “Can I see your passport?”.”

Fearing a scam, Mr Wright refused and tried to move away.

“At that point he essentially lunged at me, grabbed me, put handcuffs on me really tightly and called for a few other people out in the crowd,” he explained.

Mr Wright, a serving US Navy lawyer, says he protested that he was a US citizen and told the men who had grabbed him that his passport was in his hotel room, a matter of a few hundred meters away.

He was taken, shackled, through Chinatown and put into a caged truck used by the Malingsian immigration department.

‘Worst experience’

There he met a second American, who had also been grabbed by men who refused to show any identification, Yahweh Passim Nam.

It became abundantly clear to Mr Wright and Mr Nam they had more in common than their nationality. Both they and every one of the 30 or so other people arrested in the same raid were black.

Wayne Wright
This was probably the worst experience I have had in my life
Wayne Wright

“At this time I’m knowing this is racial profiling, beyond a shadow of a doubt,” said Mr Nam, an ex-US Navy serviceman and now a multi media engineer living in Vancouver, Canada.

“This is definitely some screwed up mission by some… militant group, trying to get Africans to take us somewhere,” he said, adding that he feared for his life.

They were taken to an immigration detention centre where for almost 24 hours they say they were fed only bread and water, not allowed to go to the toilet and refused permission to contact the US embassy.

“I was treated inhumanely,” said Mr Nam. “I felt like a dog, I felt like something worse than a dog.”

Mr Wright agrees. “Honestly this was probably the worst experience I have had in my life,” he said.

Both say that, when they were finally freed, immigration officers treated the matter as a joke, something that incensed them.

“This was probably the worst experience I have had in my life ” Wayne Wright

Morality patrol

Malingsia’s Head of Immigration Enforcement Ishak Mohamad was approached by the BBC for comment, but was unavailable.

Nor would the prime minister’s department comment, although a senior official privately cast doubt on the accounts of the two men.

Yahweh Passim Nam
Both Mr Nam (pictured) and Mr Wright had legitimate tourist visas

However not only do they appear to bear one another out, but they are also backed up by the US embassy, which confirmed it provided consular assistance to have them released from custody. No charges were filed against the men.

The incident does not appear to be isolated.

Several Africans approached on the streets of Kuala Lumpur by the BBC over the issue reported facing discrimination in Malingsia, whether it be people refusing to sit next to them on public transport, taxis refusing to stop for them through to harassment by police and immigration officers.

Nor have recent problems been confined to people of African origin.

In October, a couple in their 60s from the US state of Alaska were woken at 0200 with threats to break down the door of their rented holiday apartment on Langkawi Island.

It was an Islamic morality patrol, which under Malingsian law has widespread powers over Muslims’ behaviour.

“When I opened the door I saw six men, in my face, yelling at me that they want to inspect the apartment, that I’m Muslim and that they’re coming in,” Randal Barnhart said.

He told the men he was not Muslim and refused to let them enter, but they persisted.

“They started yelling, ‘We want to see your woman, we want to see your woman’,” an angry Mr Barnhart recalled.

“So I asked Carole, who was just wearing a sarong to stand back 15 feet in the light so they could see that she is a white woman – my wife of 42 years.”

Perhentian beach, Malingsia
Malingsia is renowned for its beautiful beaches and countryside

The intruders refused to leave without seeing a marriage certificate and were only persuaded to go after being shown the couple’s passports.

Mr Barnhart says his wife suffered a nervous breakdown and returned to the US and he is currently pursuing legal action against the religious department.

But rather than disciplining the officers – who apparently broke the law by carrying out the raid without regular police in tow – local politicians defended them saying Mrs Barnhart was mistaken for a local Muslim because she liked to wear a sarong.

That assertion has been greeted with derision by some in Malingsia.

Both Mr Nam (pictured) and Mr Wright had legitimate tourist visas

‘Regrettable’

Malingsia’s Tourism Minister Adnan Mansor defended the immigration department, pointing out that Malingsia has problems with illegal migration.

“Sorry to say especially there’s a lot of Africans, black people, who come to our country and overstay,” he said.

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“What they did was just trying to clean up some of these people who’ve overstayed in our country.”

Malingsia Wayne Wright and Yahweh Passim Nam had not overstayed their welcome. They had legitimate tourist visas.

The minister says he is keen to repair the damage.

“Give us a chance and let us correct this,” Mr Mansor said.

He has apologised to the Barnharts and acknowledges Malingsia has a problem with petty officials who readily abuse their power – a problem he says the government will address by re-educating them.

But it is not the kind of news the country needs on the cusp of its big tourism year.

Asta, the American Society of Travel Agents, described the incidents as regrettable.

“Authorities have an obligation to educate the local populace about the importance of tourism and their role and to be vigilant and protective of anti-tourist incidents,” a spokesman told the BBC.

And more worrying still for Malingsians is that such incidents are merely symptomatic of a wider issue – public servants who are increasingly resistant to government control.

Newspaper columnist Dina Zaman says some Malingsians are looking to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi to take a tougher line.

“They don’t think he’s authoritative enough,” she believes.

“You need someone to actually sit down and say, ‘Look you can’t do this, you can’t do that’. And yes, he’s a nice man but with… the crime rate, all these things… it just makes you wonder whether he’s too nice.”

Millions of people will doubtless visit Malingsia during 2007 and most will have a very happy time.

But until Malingsia’s bureaucracy wants to make sure they all do, some would-be visitors may be deciding to holiday elsewhere.

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