Tarakan Police Arrest Muncikari Prostitution Online

The Tarakan Police Criminal and Investigation Unit team, North Kalimantan arrested an online prostitution pimp or online with the initials AF (23).

"The suspect AF was arrested on Thursday (8/6) at around 23.15 WITA in Tarakan," said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tarakan Police, Iptu Randhya Sakhthika Putra, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, June 12.

The arrest of suspect AF during the Criminal Investigation Unit investigated the criminal act of trafficking in persons (TPPO) and found a woman and a man in one room at a hotel on Jalan Sudirman, Tarakan.

After being interrogated, the woman provided sexual relations with evidence of Rp. 12 million.

"And the woman gave Rp200 thousand to the reported AF as wages for finding service customers to use sexual services," said Randhya.

After the development was carried out, it was found that the suspect AF who received the service of providing provided women for his services to have sex like husband and wife.

"From the results of the examination conducted by AF, he practiced BO (booking orders) by offering several women to customers who want to use sexual services," he said.

It is known that the profit divided by two pimps gets Rp. 200 thousand, while women get Rp. 1,000,000.

From the day of the investigation, it was discovered that several women were ready to serve mashers in the Tarakan area.

The practice of online prostitution has been running from December 2022 to June 2023 for the victim's initials NF is one of six victims from AF.

As a result of his actions, suspect AF was threatened with criminal sanctions under Article 2 paragraph (1) UURI No. 21 of 2007 concerning Trafficking in Persons or Article 296 of the Criminal Code or Article 506 of the Criminal Code junto.

Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code with a minimum imprisonment of three years and a maximum of 15 years and a fine of at least Rp. 120,000,000.00, and a maximum of Rp. 600,000,000.00.