Disturbing Residents Of South Central Timor, 2 Perpetrators Of Trafficking In Persons Arrested In NTT

Head of Public Relations of the NTT Police, Kombes Police Ariasandy. (ANTARA)

The East Nusa Tenggara Regional Police have again succeeded in arresting two suspected perpetrators of the crime of trafficking in persons (TPPO) with the initials HS and RN at two different locations in the island-based province.

"Both of them were arrested by the South Central Timor Police Criminal Investigation Unit on Thursday night in Kupang City and in Malacca Regency," said Head of Public Relations of the NTT Police, Police Commissioner Ariasandy, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, June 9.

This was revealed by Ariasandy when asked for confirmation about the arrest of two suspected perpetrators of TIP who had been troubling the public.

HS and RN are known to have monitored their movements in recent weeks and the police are working with several parties to arrest HS and RN.

"For the suspect HS, whose address is on Jalan Advokad, Naikoten Satu Village, Kota Raja District, Kupang City, was arrested at Thousand Housing (Puri Manulai), Manulai 2 Village, Kupang City and the alleged perpetrator RN was arrested in Malacca Regency," he added.

The arrests of the two were also made after a police report had been made since January 27, 2023 and the police then conducted an investigation into the whereabouts of the two suspects.

The former South Central Timor Police Chief also said that the two were arrested in connection with the TIP case in accordance with Article 2 paragraph (2) and/or Article 4 of Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons and/or Article 81 in conjunction with Article 69 of the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers in conjunction with Article 55 Paragraph (1) 1e of the Criminal Code.

Both are known to illegally recruit prospective Indonesian migrant workers in Boking Village, Boking District, South Central Timor Regency.

"Currently both of them are being processed further and find out the TIP network," he said.

The chronology of the arrests of the two suspected perpetrators occurred on Thursday (8/6) when members of the South Central Timor Police Satreskrim led by Kasatreskrim Iptu Joel Ndolu received information that HS was in Kupang City.

Furthermore, the Satreskrim team headed to Kupang City and immediately coordinated with the Kupang City Police to arrest HS.

Then at around 16.00 WITA, members of the South Central Timor Police Satreskrim along with the Kupang City Police Buser team immediately shifted to HS' house which is located at Housing Seribu, Manulai 2 to arrest him.

HS was then taken to the Kupang City Police Headquarters for questioning. HS admitted that apart from himself, there were still other perpetrators, namely the hospital who was in Malacca Regency at that time.

Hearing HS's statement, the Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Central Timor Police immediately coordinated with the Head of the Malacca Police to find the whereabouts of the hospital.

At around 18.00 WITA, the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Central Timor Police received information from the Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Malacca Police that the hospital had been arrested by the Wewiku Police Criminal Investigation Unit.