Jambi Police Thwart The Departure Of Illegal Migrant Workers To Malaysia

The police arrested the perpetrator of the TIP action with the initials F (50), a resident of Muaro Panco Barat Village, Renah Pembarat District, Merangin. (ANTARA/HO-Polres Merangin)

JamBI - Merangin Police Criminal Investigation Unit (Satreskrim), Jambi thwarted the departure of 12 prospective migrant workers abroad.

"The 12 people will depart from Sungai Manau Subdistrict, Merangin to Malaysia," said Merangin Police Chief AKBP Ruri Roberto as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, August 3.

In this disclosure, one perpetrator with the initials F (50), a resident of Muaro Panco Barat Village, Renah Pembarat District, Merangin.

At that time the team received information that there were about 12 people who would be dispatched from Sungai Manau District to Malaysia. This mode uses a passport as a traveler.

But in reality as a workforce in Malaysia. They departed from Manau River using two cars. Their departure is planned through a port in Dumai City.

"But when we crossed the bottom market, we failed," he said.

Based on his statement, it was conveyed that the perpetrator had departed 10 times.

The evidence that was successfully secured was in the form of money amounting to Rp. 13.2 million, 12 passports, three ringgit notes, departure notes.

Previously, the Jambi Police TIP Task Force together with the Kerinci Police last July arrested a woman suspected of committing a criminal act of trafficking in persons (TPPO) with the mode of distributing Indonesian migrant workers.

Prospective Indonesian migrant workers from Kerinci Regency were promised to become workers in Malaysia, but this was done illegally.

The local police received information that three victims would be dispatched to Malaysia via Dumai, Riau.

Based on this information, the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Kerinci Police will immediately conduct an investigation and ambush, precisely on the road of Nan Godang Village, Siulak District, Kerinci Regency, the police stopped a car that was suspected of transporting victims of trafficking people who would be brought to Malaysia.

When the car was stopped, there were three men who were victims of trafficking in persons and a woman with the initials S (46) who was the perpetrator of the distribution of illegal migrant workers.

The victims and perpetrators were immediately arrested, and information was obtained that the perpetrator recruited the prospective illegal migrant worker because he did not have legality from the relevant agencies and was carried out individually by collecting a sum of Rp5 million per person.