Regarding TIP, Ngurah Rai Airport Police Failed The Departure Of Four Indonesian Citizens To Qatar

The Criminal Investigation Unit of the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport Area Police, Tuban, Badung, Bali led the suspect ERS (41) from Purwakerta, West Java. (DOC. ANTARA)

The Bali I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Police Traffic Unit (Satgas) has thwarted the departure of four Indonesian citizens who plan to leave for Qatar. Head of the Ngurah Rai International Airport Police Criminal Investigation Unit Iptu Rionson Ritonga in his statement in Denpasar, Bali, Wednesday said that of the four Indonesian citizens, three people were suspected of being victims of TIP, while one person was suspected of being the distributor of the workers of the three victims.

Rionson said the four people were secured at the I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Police Headquarters for further investigation and development because they could not show completeness of documents upon arrival at the International Departure Terminal of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali.

"The information we got was then coordinated with the Immigration Class 1 Special for TPI Ngurah Rai regarding the planned departure of four Indonesian citizens who were going abroad," he said.

He stated that from the results of the examination of three victims, all of whom were women, each with the initials Y (39) from West Java Bandung, SR (48) from Banyuwangi, East Java and AE (46) from Tasikmalaya, West Java.

Meanwhile, a female perpetrator as a courier or dealer has been named a suspect with the initials ERS (41) from Purwakarta, West Java.

The three victims will be employed in Qatar as household assistants. However, when they were secured they were unable to show valid documents as staff abroad," said Ritonga, quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday, June 28.

He explained that after examining the three victims of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) abroad and/or the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO), the Satreskrim coordinated with the Bali Province Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Service Center (BP3MI) for handling or repatriation of victims to their place of origin.

"The handover of the three victims to BP3MI was carried out yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, 27/6/2023)," he said.

The ER suspect has been named a suspect under Article 81 Juncto Article 69 subsidiary Article 83 in conjunction with Article 68 of Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers with a maximum penalty of 10 years and a maximum fine of IDR 15 billion and or Article 4 in conjunction with Article 10 of Law no. 21 of 2007 concerning the Crime of Trafficking in Persons with a minimum penalty of three years and a maximum of 15 years and a minimum fine of IDR 120 million.

"Against this suspect, we are temporarily entrusting his detention at the Bali Police Detention Center because the Airport Police do not yet have a detention center for women," concluded Ritonga.

Ritonga also said that for the evidence that had been confiscated, four passports each, four boarding passes to Bangkok and two cellphones.