The brutal killings of these Indonesian domestic workers occurred in an atmosphere of impunity fostered by government inaction, argued Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Womens Rights Division of New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW), on August 17. Varia was referring to the deaths in early August of Siti Tarwiyah Slamet, 32, and Susmiyati Abdul Fulan, 28 two Indonesian women domestic workers beaten to death by the Saudi family that employed them.