Participating In Kidney Trafficking Syndicate, Bali Ministry Of Law And Human Rights Investigate Other Employee Involvement

The photo archive - Head of the Bali Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office Anggiat Napitupulu while chairing a trial in Denpasar, Bali, Wednesday (14/6/2023). (DOC. ANTARA/HO-Kemenkumham Bali)

DENPASAR - Immigration Employees other than AH suspected of being involved in the trade in kidney organs in Cambodia are being investigated by the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) Bali.

"Institutionally, we will conduct an in-depth investigation to anticipate that other officers do not do it," said Head of the Bali Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regional Office Anggiat Napitupulu in Denpasar, Saturday.

The investigation was carried out to find out the ins and outs of the circle of immigration employees with the initials AH who have the potential to know or participate in supporting the actions of the perpetrators.

His party submitted a case of alleged kidney organ trafficking involving his staff to the police.

Meanwhile, the Immigration employee with the initials AH has now been deactivated from his job until there is a legal stipulation.

"AH was temporarily suspended until the final legal process," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Saturday, July 22.

Previously, the Metro Jaya Regional Police arrested 12 people who were named suspects in the kidney trade case in Tarumajaya District, Bekasi, West Java.

Of the 12 suspects, one of them is a Civil Servant (PNS) who served at Immigration at Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, aged 37 years.

AH previously served in Immigration Belawan, North Sumatra and in 2022 a work mutation to Bali.

Meanwhile, Director of General Criminal Investigation of Polda Metro Jaya Police Commissioner Hengki Haryadi in a press statement in Jakarta, Thursday (20/7) explained that AH played a role in passing the victim during the immigration examination.

AH then received a reward of Rp. 3.2 million to Rp. 3.5 million per person.

The police charged AH with Article 8 paragraph (1) of the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons.

Hengki added that the victims were promised a reward of Rp. 135 million if they were willing to become kidney donors.

In the final period of May-June 2023, the perpetrators dispatched 31 victims to sell their kidneys to Cambodia.

The suspect, he said, used social media facilities, namely Facebook, to recruit victims who wanted to donate a kidney with the names 'Indonesian Kidney Donor' and 'Foreign Kidney Donor'.

He added that they also recruited from mouth to mouth because of the 12 suspects, nine of them were former donors.