Ieu warta ti Arab News. Noor Aysha Bukhari (18 taun) dikawin Arab kolot di 
Indonesia, terus dibawa ka Arab Saudi. Di Arab,  ti beurang manehna kudu 
jadi babu dua pamajikan si Arab ieu jeung genep anakna,  ti peuting kudu 
ngalayanan nafsu  salakina. Noor akhirna lumpat ka KBRI menta tulung ......

Pamajikan, babu .....atawa 'budak belian" ?

 Wife in Indonesia, Maid in Kingdom

Maha Akeel, Arab News

http://www.arabnews 
.com/?page=1&section=0&article=90216&d=20&m=12&y=2006&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
Wednesday, 20, December, 2006 (30, Dhul Qa`dah,1427)

 JEDDAH, 20 December 2006 - An 18-year-old
Indonesian woman sought the help of her country's
embassy in Riyadh for a divorce from her abusive
husband only to find out that her marriage with the
elderly Saudi was not recognized and she is in the
Kingdom actually as his maid, Arab News has learned.

Noor Aysha Bukhari came crying to the embassy last
week after less than three months of living under the
impression that she was married to F.S., who she
claims abused her and forced her to serve his two
other Saudi wives and his children.

The lawyer retained by the embassy, Nasser
Al-Dandani, confirmed the case to Arab News and said
that Indonesian officials would follow up on it and
provide proof that the couple got married in
Indonesia.

"We will then go to court to persuade him to admit
the marriage and consequently divorce her and
compensate her," said the lawyer.

The marriage would still be considered illegal in
Saudi Arabia because he never registered it with the
authorities and brought Bukhari into the country on a
domestic servant visa.

The young woman came to the embassy a few days ago
complaining of her husband's mistreatment and seeking
a divorce.

Bukhari says that she occupied a room on the
second floor of F.S.'s house where, during the day,
she took care of his three children from his first
marriage and served his second wife and three other
children, and in the evening she played the role as
the man's third wife.

Saudi men often take second wives, according to
social custom, creating insecurity for first wives.
F.S. initially admitted to the marriage, but later
denied it, according to a source close to the case who
did not want to be named.

"He is refusing to admit the marriage unless she
pays him back a loan of SR3,200 he claims to have
given her family because of their poor financial
situation," said the source, adding that this "loan"
was actually the dowry the man paid to marry the woman
in Indonesia.

This is not an individual case although such cases
are not very common, according to sources. A few
months ago a local newspaper reported that an
Indonesian woman came as a maid to look for her son
from her Saudi ex-husband who married her in
Indonesia, then divorced her and took her son.

It is common for Saudi men to marry Indonesian
women temporarily through misyar ("no obligation")
marriages and divorce them after paying a relatively
small sum, which to the poor women and their families
makes a big difference.

Al-Watan newspaper recently wrote that 89 percent
of Saudi households have at least one maid. The total
number of domestic workers is well over 1 million,
including Bangladeshis, Indians, Filipinos,
Ethiopians, Indonesians, Nepalese and Sri Lankans 

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