( CNN ) -- Indonesia 's government has stepped in at the eleventh hour to help save an Indonesian woman on death row in Saudi Arabia from being executed this weekend . Satinah Binti Jumadi Ahmad , a 40-year old working as a housemaid in the Gulf kingdom , was sentenced to death in 2011 after she reportedly admitted to killing her 70-year-old female employer and stealing approximately $ 10,000 . She said it was in self-defense as her boss had been trying to attack her at the time . She was facing execution on Saturday unless the dead woman 's family received 7 million Saudi riyals ( $ 1.8 million ) in financial compensation , known as diyya or `` blood money . '' A pardon would likely follow if the payment is made . Campaigners in Indonesia had raised just over half that sum with donations coming from the public , businesses and NGOs , Jakarta 's Foreign Ministry said in a statement last week . But on Thursday , a statement on the official website of the Indonesian President 's Cabinet Secretariat confirmed that Indonesia 's government would pay the full amount -- a figure that had been negotiated down from an initial request of 10 million Saudi riyals , Indonesian Foreign Ministry official Tatang Budie Utama Razak told CNN in February . `` With the government 's offer to pay 7 million riyals , Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs , Djoko Suyanto , said Satinah has been saved from the death penalty , at the Buraidah prison in Saudi Arabia , '' the statement read . The statement quoted Suyanto as saying a task force representing the Indonesian government had met with Saudi officials and the dead woman 's family on Wednesday when a figure was agreed . He did not confirm whether the family had made any additional demands . Saudi authorities have yet to confirm whether the execution will be canceled . Letter to the King . The execution was initially scheduled for August 2011 but has been postponed five times due to the intervention of the Indonesian government , Jakarta 's Foreign Ministry said . Yudhoyono has written King Abdullah twice over the last two years , while Ahmad 's brother and daughter have also written a letter to the victim 's family , according to the ministry . Some 41 other Indonesian workers face possible death sentences in Saudi Arabia on charges ranging from black magic to stealing , adultery and murder , according to the Indonesian Foreign Ministry and local nonprofit groups . In 2011 , Indonesian housemaid Darsem Binti Dawud Tawar was pardoned after the Indonesian government paid the required compensation of 2 million riyals ( $ 533,000 ) . She had been sentenced to death two years before for murdering a relative of her Yemeni employer in Saudi Arabia . She claimed she acted in self-defense after he allegedly tried to rape her . Ruyati Binti Sapubi , also an Indonesian maid working in Saudi Arabia , was executed in June 2011 for allegedly killing her employer . Her beheading caused public outrage in Indonesia and a diplomatic protest when Saudi authorities did not inform Jakarta of the date of her execution . Moratorium . The Indonesian government later announced a full moratorium on sending workers to the Gulf kingdom , which ended in February when the two governments signed a new agreement guaranteeing domestic workers a monthly wage , time off and contact with loved ones . Human rights groups say the pact is a step toward ensuring the protection of foreign workers ' basic rights in Saudi Arabia . But it fails to address a worrying trend of domestic helpers filing complaints of exploitation and abuse , only to face counterallegations by their employers of `` theft , witchcraft or adultery , '' according to Human Rights Watch . The penalties for these crimes are harsh in the deeply conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia , which practices a puritanical form of Islam . Around 1.5 million women -- mostly from Indonesia , Sri Lanka , and the Philippines -- work in Saudi Arabia as domestic workers , according to Human Rights Watch . They make up less than a quarter of the kingdom 's 8 million foreign workers but account for most of the complaints received by embassies of sending countries , the organization said . CNN 's Marie-Louise Gumuchian and Paul Armstrong contributed to this report .
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