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the fate of Indonesian women in the arab country

The National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) searched in vain on Saturday for an Indonesian woman with a young daughter who needed urgent medical treatment.

The society said its members searched under the Al-Sitteen bridge and other places where illegal Indonesians gather in hopes of being deported but they could not find the woman with a child in need of medical attention.

Makkah province NSHR General Manager Hussain Al-Sharif said he received a report from a Saudi philanthropist who said she came across the Indonesian woman with her very sick daughter and took them to a private dispensary in Jeddah for treatment at her own expenses but the clinic refused to accept them because the daughter needed urgent surgery.

The woman told the NSHR that she took the Indonesian woman and her daughter to the Jeddah Passport Department which in turn refused to accept them because some formalities had to be done by the Indonesian Consulate in Jeddah.

The Saudi woman philanthropist said the Indonesia woman went to Indonesian Embassy in Jeddah, which also refused to intervene.

The NSHR, which did not identify either of the women or the hospital that allegedly turned away an emergency case, said it sent one of its members with a volunteering medical doctor to check the medical condition of the child but were unable to find the woman or her child.

The NSHR appealed to citizens and expatriates, especially members of the Indonesian community, to look for the woman and her daughter.

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