The Jakarta Post reported that the family, who live in Ebi village, Oenino, South Timor Tengah regency, believed that Adelina never received her salary despite having worked since 2015.
“We demand that Adelina’s salary for three years be paid. Don’t justify withholding her salary because she was unregistered,” Adelina’s aunt Petronela Koa was quoted as saying.
She spoke to The Jakarta Post while waiting for Adelina’s body to arrive at El Tari Airport in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. Adelina’s body is to be laid to rest on Sunday.
Petronela added: “The amount of money does not matter. But it is still her right [to be paid].”
According to the report, the family had reported two people who allegedly recruited and sent Adelina to work illegally in Malaysia. The two have already been arrested by the local police for forging Adelina’s documents. Adelina was reportedly only 17 years old when she was sent abroad. The forged documents indicate that Adelina was six years older that her actual age, according to the report.
Adelina died at the Bukit Mertajam Hospital on Feb 11.Police in Penang are investigating the case for murder and have arrested two siblings, aged 36 and 39, and their 60-year-old mother.
Adelina had been working at their semi-detached house in Taman Kota Permai in Bukit Mertajam. She was taken to the hospital after a concerned neighbour, who spotted her with wounds on her hands and legs, alerted the office of Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim, whose aides informed the police as well as the human rights NGO, Tenaganita.
Adelina had also been reportedly seen sleeping next to a Rottweiler for two months.