Hehehe... biasa, orang ngiri ngeliat orang lain dikasih duit banyak. Padahal ybs cuma sekedar punya rumah tembok, tv dan sepeda motor, ga seberapa sebetulnya.
>________________________________ >From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 9:01 AM >Subject: [proletar] New ordeal for Indonesian who escaped Saudi sword > > > >http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/09/06/new-ordeal-indonesian-who-escaped-saudi-sword.html > >New ordeal for Indonesian who escaped Saudi sword > >Robin McDowell, Associated Press, Trungtum | Tue, 09/06/2011 7:07 PM >One Indonesian maid is beheaded in Saudi Arabia. For a second one on death >row, strangers at home rally to her cause and raise tens of thousands of >dollars. She not only escapes the sword, she's now rich. And hated. > >Darsem binti Dawud Tawar, 22, shot to fame earlier this year in Indonesia >after spending more than three years in a Saudi prison accused of killing a >man who allegedly tried to rape her. But when the former maid safely returned >to her small fishing village, the public tide swiftly turned against her. > >She's accused of living in luxury, building a fancy house along the dusty >track that passes for Main Street, throwing around cash and draping herself in >jewels. > >"She acts like a bling-bling celebrity now," said Siti Patonah, a 32-year-old >vendor, scrubbing apples and watermelons at a market as five or six housewives >gather. > >"It's true," one says. "Like a nut that forgot its shell." > >The execution in June of a 53-year-old grandmother, Ruyati binti Satubim, >sparked mass protests in Indonesia and prompted the government's first effort >to do more to protect the 1.2 million women who flock to Saudi Arabia every >year to work as domestic help. It recalled its ambassador from Riyadh, and >last month barred any further workers from going to the Gulf kingdom. > >But Darsem's case has stolen the show, sparking fierce debate in the world's >most populous Muslim nation on whether she should donate her windfall. Some >Indonesian lawmakers fret that the public may not be as likely to give next >time around, even if a life is at stake. > >--- > >Home finally: In this photo taken Aug. 24, 2011, Darsem binti Dawud stands >with his son in front her new house in Trungtum, West Java's Subang district, >Indonesia. (AP/Tatan Syuflana)Life's been anything but easy for Darsem. > >She dropped out of school before finishing 6th grade and moved to the capital, >Jakarta, so she could help support her family. > >By 15, she was married and pregnant and months later she went to the Middle >East - first Oman, then United Arab Emirates and finally Saudi Arabia - as >she'd seen many other young women do before her. > >Theirs were the nice concrete houses, standing out among the wooden shacks lit >by oil lamps. They had the shiny Yamaha motorcycles, the 21-inch TVs carried >through doorways in big, brown cardboard boxes. > >She'd heard, but chose to ignore, the stories about maids working abroad - >women killed by their bosses, stabbed with scissors or burned with hot irons. > >"My husband didn't have a job, my father was getting old, I thought it was our >best chance," Darsem says from the living room of her parent's two-room house, >aqua-blue paint chipping off the walls. > >She refuses to talk about what happened next, saying she wants to put it >behind her. > >But according to Saudi media reports, Darsem killed her employer's relative - >a man who was mentally ill - with a hammer to the head after he attacked her. >She then threw his body in an empty water tank and covered it with concrete. > >Darsem spent the next 3 1/2 years in a Saudi jail, but it wasn't until the >beheading of Ruyati, also accused of murdering an abusive boss, that her luck >finally turned. > >Newspapers and activists on Facebook and Twitter championed her cause. > >The government quickly scraped together the $500,000 demanded by the family of >Darsem's victim for her release. > >The public also chipped in: Men held out boxes and nets on traffic-clogged >streets to collect change from motorists, women went to schools or mosques and >- when she finally came home - a TV station handed her $140,000 from its >viewers. > >That's a fortune in the predominantly Muslim nation of 240 million, where many >people make less than $200 a month. > >In Trungtum, a struggling, coastal town 110 miles (180 kilometers) from >Jakarta, Darsem may as well be a millionaire. > >Everyone has a suggestion as to how she should spend the money, she said, and >they all have their hands out. > >"But why should I give them anything? They did nothing to help my family when >I was gone," she says of her neighbors, pointing to the roof above her, badly >damaged in a heavy storm and patched together by her father's own hands. > >Asked why she doesn't help with legal fees of 23 Indonesians still on death >row in Saudi Arabia - the most popular suggestion on Twitter and op-ed pages - >the round-faced girl with dark, slow-blinking eyes looks incredulous. > >"I didn't even know those women," Darsem says. "There were dozens in my cell >all the time. They were always coming and going. But really, who are they to >me?" > >But despite the rumors, Darsem is hardly living large. > >The $10,000 house she's building 50 yards (meters) from her parents' is not >much bigger or more extravagant than any of her neighbors' and her future >plans are modest: Some land to grow rice. A new, wooden fishing boat for her >dad. A sewing machine to open a tailor's shop. > >"... A good education for my son," she says. > >But she can't escape the gossip. > >Each trip she takes to the market is scrutinized: the baskets filled with >colorful fresh fruits, the new kitchen appliances. > >The vendors, fishermen and housewives say hello and then, after she passes, >talk about her clothes or the gold necklace, studded with a tiny piece of >translucent jade, that rests delicately on her brown skin. > >Handing out cash - for sympathy and celebration - is common across Asia. But >the implications of direct giving are rarely considered. > >"I don't think it was a good idea to give her money beyond what was necessary >to set her free," said Peter Singer, a Princeton University professor who has >written extensively about ethics and charity. > >"But once it's given to her, you can't really have any expectations on what >she does with it." > >Darsem, meanwhile, says the money she's clinging too so tightly hasn't made >her happy. > >"I feel stressed all the time," she said, adding that there isn't one person >in Trungtum she'd call a friend. > >In the end, she decided to take back her estranged husband, even though he had >remarried while she was gone and had another child, ignoring their own son, >Ahmad Safi, now 6. > >He's the only one she can come close to trusting. > >"I don't know why everyone's turned against me," she said. "Would they rather >I was miserable and destitute? Really... it's not fair." > >--- > >Envied: In this photo taken Aug. 24, 2011, Darsem binti Dawud Tawar, right, >sits on a sofa as her father Dawud looks on at the latter's house in Trungtum, >West Java's Subang district, Indonesia. (AP/Tatan Syuflana)The local TV >station that collected the $140,000 on Darsem's behalf has taken much of the >heat. > >Many viewers thought they were saving the girl from the executioner's sword, >but the government insisted it was responsible for the "blood money" demanded >by the victim's family. > >So TVOne decided to give it to Darsem. > >Standing awkwardly beside her as she accepted the cash - almost a sideshow - >was Een Nuraini, the daughter of the woman who was beheaded. > >"I don't know why they even invited me," said the 35-year-old who lives in >Sukatani, a small village a few hours from Trungtum. > >"But when Darsem promised on live TV to share some of the money, I hoped to be >able to use it to send my mother's parents to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage." > >Several weeks later, Darsem called and asked her to come. > >Darsem presented Een Nuraini with an envelope containing $2,000. It was well >short of what she expected, and nowhere near enough for her grandparents' trip. > >"I don't think she understands," said Een Nuraini, her eyes welling with tears >from beneath her dark gray headscarf. "The only reason she got all this >attention - not just the money but also help from the government - was because >of my mother." > >She says no one has supported her family. Neither the government, nor the >public. > >Asked what she intended to do with Darsem's money, she looks up and says >softly, with no sign of regret, "Oh ... it's gone already." > >"I gave it all to the local mosque and orphanage in my mom's name." > >"I know that's what she would have wanted." > >Related News >> >a.. Middle East UI alumni support awarded rector >b.. NGOs protest over UI granting Saudi King with honoris causa >c.. UI awards Saudi Arabia king honorary degree >d.. 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