Supplier of Illegal Female Workers in Bogor Becomes a Suspect

BOGOR - The Bogor Resort Police, West Java, have taken action against a suspect with the initials L who is suspected of committing the crime of trafficking in persons (TPPO) in the form of providing illegal services for recruiting female workers (TKW).

"In the course of the case, the reported L has been named a suspect, and we have detained the suspect", said Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Bogor Police, AKP Yohanes Redhoi Sigiro, quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 6.

He explained that the initial exposure of the illegal service provider for TKW dealers located in Parungpanjang District was when one of the victims reported it to the 110 services. At that time L fled with four of his victims to Cigudeg, Bogor, because members of the Employment Service visited him.

"On Saturday, December 3, 2022, at 00.00 WIB, suspect L's house was visited by members of the Employment Service who were allegedly from Bandung. The suspect L ran away and took the four victims to his children's house in the Cigudeg area", he explained.

Sigiro said the police immediately arrested the suspect L and the four victims after receiving the report. Then, his party also secured several pieces of evidence in the form of two of the victim's passports, a sheet of flight order paper, and a bundle of the victim's personal documents.

"We examined the victims and suspects and searched the houses in Parungpanjang and Cigudeg", said Sigiro.

Suspect L, said Sigiro, offered the services of distributing TKW to Malaysia via social media in the form of Facebook. Each TKW is offered a salary of 1,500 ringgit or IDR 5.5 million per month.

"Because they were interested, the four victims contacted the personal contacts of the initials A and D. Then they were directed to meet the reported person with the initials L in a housing complex in the Parung Panjang area", he said.

The four victims were housed in their house for two weeks to be trained in sweeping and ironing. Then, the four victims were brought by L to the WTC Serpong Mall to make passports at the Passport Service Unit (ULP) Class I Non-TPI Tangerang Immigration Office, but with the excuse of going on vacation to Singapore.

For his actions, L was charged with Article 10 in conjunction with Article 4 Indonesia Law No. 21 of 2007 concerning the eradication of the criminal act of trafficking in persons and/or Article 81 JO Article 69 and/or Article 83 JO Article 68 Indonesia Law No. 18 of 2017 concerning Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers.