Ministry Of Home Affairs Supports Complete Investigation Of Human Cages At Langkat Regent's House

Regent of Langkat, North Sumatra, off Published Wind War Plan/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) has requested that the findings of the human cage at the house of the inactive Langkat Regent Publish the Wind War Plan be thoroughly investigated.

"The Ministry of Home Affairs supports the investigation process that is currently being carried out and completely leaves further legal processes to law enforcement officials," said Head of the Ministry of Home Affairs Information Center Benny Irwan to reporters, Tuesday, January 25.

He believes that the National Police will act professionally and resolve the allegation of modern slavery. Moreover, the police have been dispatched to carry out further investigations.

"Currently, law enforcement officers have gone directly to follow up on the alleged existence of a human cage in the non-active Langkat Regent's residence area," he said.

Meanwhile, the Special Staff of the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian, Kastorius Sinaga said that finding a human cage in Terbit's house was a serious problem. Thus, the investigation of the findings must be in accordance with the applicable law.

Meanwhile, from his own side, he continued, coaching would be carried out on regional heads. The goal is to prevent this kind of practice from happening again.

"The finding of a cage in the Langkat Regent's private house is a serious matter, a matter of concern, and it is appropriate for law enforcement officials to follow up on it in accordance with applicable regulations," said Kastorius.

"The Ministry of Home Affairs will continue to strengthen the guidance and supervision of the regions in stages where the governor as GWPP conducts binwas to all regents and mayors in the region. So that the practice of local government governance and especially the quality of KDH leadership in the regions is more qualified in accordance with the spirit of regional autonomy in Law 23 of the Republic of Indonesia. 2014," he added.

As previously reported, Migrant Care said that the alleged existence of a human cage in Terbit Plan's house was a report from the public. He said there were allegations of modern slavery practices that were revealed when the KPK's arrest operation (OTT) succeeded in ensnaring Terbit.

"There are oil palm workers in their fields (Plan Warin Angin, ed.), we find that there are seven cruel and inhumane treatments which we suspect are modern slavery and human trafficking," said Anis.

The seven cruel treatments included Terbit building a prison or human cage in his house to accommodate oil palm workers, the workers were not allowed to go anywhere, were beaten, given inadequate food twice a day, and were not paid.

"Then of course you don't have access to communication with outsiders," he said.

"Based on the case, we reported it to Komnas HAM because it was very heinous. We just found out that there is a regional head who is supposed to protect his citizens but instead uses his power to arbitrarily carry out actions that violate human rights principles, are anti-torture, and anti-trafficking," he concluded. Anis.