78 to be deported for Indonesia mission riots

Seventy-eight Indonesians face deportation after they were detained for instigating and causing riots at the Indonesian Consulate in Jeddah on June 9.
Indonesian Ambassador Gatot Abdullah Mansyr said yesterday that the Indonesians are in a Jeddah deportation center awaiting deportation.
On June 9, the consulate building was attacked, ransacked and its outer walls were set on fire after thousands of migrant workers turned violent. Mansyr said the Indonesian woman who died in the incident was buried in Jeddah on Thursday.
Meanwhile, exhaustion as a result of long queues at the consulate and scorching sun led to the death of Qoriah binti Ahmad Irfan, 45, from Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
H. Zainal, an Indonesian labor, clarified that Qoriah did not die in the rioting, but in hospital due to exhaustion at the consulate’s counter.
Mansyr said that Indonesian Vice Minister for Law and Human Rights Denny Indrayan is camping in Jeddah to restore peace and to oversee the new service arrangements made by the consulate for undocumented workers. He added that Indonesian Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Wardana, who came to Jeddah after the incident, returned to Jakarta yesterday.
Mansyr called on the host government to extend the amnesty deadline or to declare an interim amnesty period after Haj this year. He said Jakarta has deployed 48 additional personnel to help the Indonesian missions as the workload has grown.