Involved In Online Gambling, 16 Indonesian Citizens From Jambi Undergo Legal Process In Malaysia

Illustration of human trafficking (ANTARA)

JAMBI - Jambi Regional Police (Polda) confirmed that they are ready to investigate the case of reporting on Indonesian citizens (WNI) born in Jambi which is being processed by law in Malaysia. The 16 Jambi residents are suspected of being involved in online gambling activities.

Jambi Police Chief Inspector General Rusdi Hartono said that currently the Jambi Police Ditreskrimsus has monitored this information and has coordinated with the Divhubinter of the National Police Headquarters and the Indonesian Embassy Police Attache in Kuala Lumpur to investigate the alleged trafficking activity of people in this incident.

"We immediately try that the 16 Indonesian citizens born in Jambi can be deported or returned to Jambi," he said, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, May 25.

He explained that based on data and passport checks used by 16 Jambi-born residents, they were passports issued from East Jakarta, not from the Jambi Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office.

The Jambi Regional Police will certainly try their best so that the Jambi-born Indonesian citizen can immediately return to Jambi and the Jambi Regional Police also ask the family to remain calm, because the state has been present to help and facilitate this problem.

The identities of the 16 residents who were born in Jambi were known by the Jambi Police Criminal Investigation Directorate, then the Jambi Police Criminal Investigation Directorate will continue to study and investigate the case.

Previously, it was reported that there were Indonesian citizens born in Jambi who are currently undergoing legal proceedings in Malaysia, from the results of coordination with Jambi Immigration, information was obtained that the total number of Indonesian prisoners was 30 people, 25 men and 5 women, based on data that 16 men were born in Jambi.

The Indonesian citizen who is undergoing the legal process is suspected of being involved in online gambling activities. However, the Indonesian Embassy Police Attache in Kuala Lumpur is trying to negotiate with PDRM (Diraja Malaysia Police) so that they are only subject to witnesses because there are allegations that they have become victims of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO).

As a form of concern for the families of Jambi-born Indonesian citizens who are being prosecuted by the Malaysian State, the Jambi Police also visited their families and provided information regarding cases experienced by their family members.

On this occasion, the Jambi Police through the Jambi Police Ditreskrimsus visited one by one the families in Jambi Province.

The Head of Public Relations of Kombes Pol Mulia Prianto explained that the purpose of this arrival was to provide information regarding their family members in Malaysia.

The personnel of the Jambi Police Ditreskrimsus went directly to convey to the family that currently the Indonesian Embassy Police Attache has provided protection and assistance to Indonesian citizens.

This visit was made to provide services to the community so that they are calm and confident that the state is here to provide protection and assist them to assist the legal process.

"Currently, the Jambi Police Ditreskrimsus continues to strive and communicate with the Malaysian state, so that Indonesian citizens born in Jambi can be used as witnesses, considering that they are strongly suspected of being victims of trafficking in persons. We just pray that all processes can run smoothly and successfully," he said.