Indonesia protests beheading of domestic worker in Saudi Arabia

Family members of beheaded Indonesian maid Siti Zainab display a poster (right) bearing her portrait at their family home in Bangkalan in East Java province on April 15, 2015. -AFP

JAKARTA: Jakarta summoned the Saudi Arabian ambassador Wednesday to protest the beheading of an Indonesian domestic worker and complain that her family and consular staff were not given prior notice of the execution.

Saudi authorities said Siti Zainab was executed Tuesday in the Muslim holy city of Medina after being convicted of stabbing and beating Saudi woman Noura al-Morobei to death in 1999.