Family and former neighbours of the Indonesian woman suspected of involvement in the audacious killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Malaysia are stunned by the arrest of the young mother who they say was a polite and quiet “nice…
Family and former neighbours of the Indonesian woman suspected of involvement in the audacious killing of the North Korean leader’s half-brother in Malaysia are stunned by the arrest of the young mother who they say was a polite and quiet “nice girl”. Siti Aisyah, 25, is one of by Malaysian police for possible involvement in the apparent assassination of Kim Jong-nam. Between 2008 and 2011 she and her then-husband lived in a modest dwelling in a narrow alley of the densely populated Tambora neighbourhood in west Jakarta. Her former father-in-law Tjia Liang Kiong, who lives in a nearby middle-class neighbourhood and last saw Aisyah in late January, described her as a “very kind, polite and respectful person”. “I was shocked to hear that she was arrested for murdering someone,” he said. “I don’t believe that she would commit such a crime or what the media says – that she is an intelligence agent.
