REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) argued that Siti Aisyah was a victim of conspiration related to the murder of the step brother of the North Korean President Kim Jong-un in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "From the information we had and what was spread in the media, for simple it was like this. What was happened in Kuala Lumpur was the victim of victim. So Kim was a victim of victim, because Aisyah was also a victim. Victim of a conspiration," said Kalla in his office in Jakarta on Friday (17/2).
JK said if Siti was a state special agent, the police and the media would never know where she was. "But why she went to a hotel, slept, hiding at the city alone, it was near the airport," said him.
Siti Aisyah was arrested by the Malaysian Police on February 16 in a hotel near the airport. She was allegedly committed a murder to the step-brother of the North Korean President Kim Jong-un named Kim Jong-nam. He was reported to go to Malaysia for a business.
The police arrested Siti Aisyah based on the identification of the CCTV record in the airport. The Director of Indonesian Workers Protection in the Ministry if Foreign Affairs Muhammad Iqbal said the Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia had been coordinated with the Malaysian authorities due to the case.