Tuesday, May 3, 2011

'Help bring our girl home'


Azmi Sulaiman and his wife showing a picture of their daughter, Ahzlina, whom they say is having a hard life in East Kalimantan.

A father is pleading with the authorities to help bring back his 23-year-old daughter who eloped with her Indonesian boyfriend to East Kalimantan three years ago.

Azmi Sulaiman, 50, said his daughter, Ahzlina Azmi, had been begging him to bring her home every time she called the family as she was living in misery.

"During our conversation last month, she kept repeating her wish to return home as she could no longer stand the suffering."




He said his daughter told him that her husband was earning a meagre income from working in an estate.

"Besides, she now has a baby and there is not enough food for her family," he said at his house in Kampung Bukit Tiu here.

Azmi, an odd-job worker, said Ahzlina informed him that she was living in cramped conditions at a kongsi as she had to share the place with a few other families.


He suspected that his daughter was "kidnapped" by her husband when she was working at a sawmill in Padang Tengku in Kuala Lipis, Pahang, in 2008.

"Our family got her first call from Indonesia three months after she disappeared from her last workplace in 2008."

Since then, he said she had called one of her siblings irregularly but would not answer the telephone when they called her back.


Based on her story, he said she was in a daze when the Indonesian man took her with him to Kalimantan.

"I suspect that he had cast a spell on her to follow him to Indonesia. I also doubt that they were married through proper procedures."

Azmi said his daughter's last known address was Desa Kebun Agung, Rantau Pulung, Balikpapan in East Kalimantan.

"Her younger sisters have mailed packages containing essential items and Ahzlina had confirmed receiving the goods."

He said the family had approached Umno leaders in the district since her daughter's disappearance but their efforts proved futile.

He was willing to accept his daughter and her husband, and would hold a proper marriage ceremony for them if they came back.


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