JAKARTA Interpol has asked its French counterparts to initiate the extradition of Daisy Fajarina, the Indonesian mother-in law of the Tengku Temenggong Kelantan, through diplomatic channels.

 

It may now be a government to government affair. Previous requests by French Interpol for Daisy, 44, to be arrested and sent back to France have been unsuccessful as Indonesia and France do not have an extradition treaty.

However, the latest development looks positive and the French authorities are poised to initiate the measures, say lawyers for Shaliha Lanti who is determined to see that Daisy, her stepmother, serves the 18-month jail term for abusing and subjecting her to slave-like conditions.

In a letter dated Aug 14 to Ratna Sarumpaet Crisis Centre in Jakarta, which has taken a deep interest in the case on behalf of Shaliha, 25, Indonesian Interpol requested that the extradition be carried out through diplomatic channels.

The same was conveyed to Shaliha’s lawyers with a French Embassy official in Jakarta at a meeting on Aug 3, Malay Mail has learnt.

Daisy was found guilty by a Magistrate’s Court in Grasse, France, for “submitting a vulnerable and dependent person to undignifi ed working conditions and assault since 1998”.She was sentenced in absentia.

Shaliha, her Indonesian stepdaughter, was staying with her and her husband, Juergen Reiner Pinot Noack, in France at the time of the incidents. The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry had also received a report from the Consulate General in Marseilles, France, requesting that the Indonesian government assist in getting Daisy to serve the sentence.

The ministry’s Foreign Affairs Department, through its Indonesian Citizens’ Protection Directorate, is also in consultation with the Indonesian police headquarters on the matter. Shaliha is currently in Indonesia to bring her stepmother to justice.

Pinot, 66, who was sentenced to four months’ jail, had admitted in court that he had been forced by Daisy to caress Shaliha’s body in front of her (Daisy) after undressing the girl.

He had admitted that he had started in February, 2007, caressing the girl, kissing her, and touching her breasts “everyday a little bit more”.

She managed to avoid him several times before she gave in and had sex with Pinot. She was a virgin until then.
Pinot, in his testimony, claimed that he was too scared of Daisy to stop her acts of violence against the girl.

Daisy fled France and a warrant of arrest was issued on June 26 the same year. She had recently said she is
ready to return to France to challenge the court’s judgment.

Denying the allegations brought up by Shaliha, she said the charges were trumped up by the former, whom she brought from Southern Sulawesi to stay with her and her husband in France when the girl was 15.

Since arriving in Indonesia recently after a 10-year lapse, Shaliha has made scathing revelations about Daisy, alleging mistreatment and other beastly wrong-doings by her. She has made several police reports in Jakarta, the latest alleging identity forgery by Daisy.

Daisy has also been sued by Tengku Fakhry, 31, who has claimed both she and his wife Manohara Odelia, 17, owed him RM1,112,250 that was taken before and after their marriage.

Tengku Fakhry has also filed a RM105 million defamation suit against mother and daughter.