( CNN ) Saudi Arabia has executed a second Indonesian maid despite protests from Jakarta , which is itself facing fierce criticism for its failure to heed calls for clemency for a number of foreigners on death row . The Indonesian government summoned the Saudi ambassador to the foreign ministry on Thursday after learning that 37-year-old Karni Bt . Medi Tarsim had been beheaded , without official warning . Karni was sentenced to death in March 2013 for killing her employer 's four-year-old child . She was the second Indonesian domestic worker executed by the Saudis this week , following the death of Siti Zaenab Bt . Duhri Rupa on Tuesday -- the execution again carried out with Indonesian officials receiving no prior warning . `` That is our main issue . It 's not that suddenly there was an execution . We did n't know when it would take place . Still , we took over a hundred steps to try to free ( Siti ) from execution , '' said Arrmanatha Nasir , spokesman for Indonesia 's Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Siti , 47 , was convicted of killing her employer 's wife in 1999 , but the death penalty was delayed until the youngest of the victim 's sons reached puberty and was old enough to consider requesting her pardon . He did n't . Rights groups say they suspect Siti was mentally ill and cast aspersions on claims she had confessed to the crime . Amnesty International also said reports suggested she had been abused while working in the victim 's home . `` Imposing the death penalty and executing someone with a suspected mental illness smacks of a basic lack of humanity , '' said Philip Luther , Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International . In a statement , the Indonesian government said the protection of its citizens abroad was a `` priority '' and listed the attempts it had made to help Siti , including providing legal aid , writing letters to the Saudi King and `` continuous efforts ... to ask for forgiveness from the family . '' Indonesia said in many cases its efforts had worked . From July 2011 to the end of March this year , it said it had `` successfully freed '' 238 of its citizens from the death penalty . One of those was Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad who was sentenced to death in 2011 after reportedly admitting to killing her 70-year-old employer and stealing $ 10,000 . Satinah claimed she acted in self-dense . Days before her scheduled execution , the Indonesian government stepped in with so-called `` blood money '' of 7 million Saudi riyals -- at the time worth about $ 1.8 million . Satinah was spared . Indonesia 's efforts to save its own citizens does not sit well with advocates who are seeking the same mercy for foreigners languishing on Indonesia 's death row . Two of the most high profile cases are Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran , Australians convicted of attempting to smuggle heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005 . Friday marks the 10-year anniversary of their arrest with seven other people -- members of the so-called `` Bali Nine '' -- who are currently serving lengthy sentences in Indonesian prisons . As the alleged ringleaders , Chan and Sukumaran were sentenced to death , and denied clemency from President Jokowi Widodo , a decision being challenged through the country 's Constitutional Court . `` If Indonesia wants to effectively protect Indonesians from the death penalty abroad , Indonesia should also abolish the death penalty here , '' said Todung Mulya Lubis , one of the men 's lawyers . Chan , 31 , and Sukumaran -- who also turns 34 on Friday -- are currently incarcerated on Nusakambangan Island in preparation for their execution but no date has been set . Human Rights Watch called on Widodo to suspend all planned executions in Indonesia -- as the previous government did between 2008 and 2013 . No executions were carried out in 2014 , but earlier this year , six people -- including five foreigners -- faced the firing squad . `` The executions of two Indonesian citizens in Saudi Arabia in a single week should be a turning point on the subject of death penalty in Indonesia , '' said Andreas Harsono , the Indonesian researcher for Human Rights Watch . `` Please stop the lecture of sovereignty . It is so old fashioned . '' Before news of the second execution emerged on Thursday , the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press briefing to denounce the Saudi action . When asked whether Jakarta 's complaints smacked of hypocrisy , given the country 's refusal to spare foreigners on death row , spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said : `` If you read our constitution , it is the job , the role of the government to protect its citizens , right ? So it 's not a double standard . '' `` On the issue of death penalty , we can have a long debate whether it is against human rights or it is morally wrong or right . That 's a whole other discussion , that 's a whole other argument , but what we 're saying now here is we are implementing our laws and we are adhering to our constitution that we have to protect our citizens abroad . ''
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