Tuti Tursilawati (6 June 1984 in Cikeusik,

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– 29 October 2018 in

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) was an Indonesian housekeeper who was executed on October 29, 2018 in

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. In 2011 she was convicted of the murder of her employer Suud Malhaq Al Utaibi, who she had been serving since 2009 and who had allegedly

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her. According to her, on May 11, 2010 she killed him in self-defense when he tried to

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her. Former president of Indonesia

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and high-ranking personalities were committed to the

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of Tursilawati. Indonesia's government submitted both legal forms and a letter to King

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objecting to the death sentence, but was not informed about the upcoming

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. President

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protested in a telephone conversation with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister

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against the execution. He also ordered the Saudi Ambassador to Jakarta. The Indonesian organization ''Migrant CARE'' called for the termination of agreements on Indonesian labor between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Local and international human rights organizations called for better protection for guest workers in Saudi Arabia. Tursilawati was already the third housekeeper to be executed in 2018 in Saudi Arabia.{{cite news , url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/indonesia-protests-saudi-execution-domestic-worker-181031094812124.html , title=Indonesia protests Saudi execution of domestic worker , work=Al Jazeera , date=31 October 2018

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