Checking The Issuance Of The Plan For The Cage Problem, Komnas HAM Confirms That The Occupants Are Not Paid And Are Required To Sign A Statement Letter

Komnas HAM Commissioner arrives at the KPK Building in Jakarta (Wardhany Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) said that the occupants of the human cage found in the house of the Langkat Regent, who was not active in the Terbit Angin Angin Plan, were employed in a palm oil factory. Apart from being employed, they also do not get paid.

This was conveyed by the Commissioner of Komnas HAM Choirul Anam after conducting an examination of the Publication of the Plan at the KPK's Red and White Building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, today or Monday, February 7th.

"Yes (justified by Terbit, ed) who works in a palm oil factory. Yes. We have also checked the factory," Anam told reporters.

Anam said the residents who worked in the palm oil mill were not paid. "Yes (work without pay, ed)," he said.

Furthermore, Komnas HAM also confirmed the existence of a statement letter that must be signed by the occupants of the human cage. However, Anam said the letter not only contained the occupants must be in the human cage within 1.5 years but varied.

"The statement letter has various models, not just a single one like that. There are also other models, but the point is that people who go there have to make a statement. However, the model is not single," he said.

As previously reported, Komnas HAM conducted an examination of Terbit at the KPK building because he is currently a suspect in a bribery case involving infrastructure at the Langkat Regency Government, North Sumatra.

The request for information was carried out as an effort to give Published the right to answer existing findings related to human cages which are referred to as rehabilitation centers for drug users.

For information, the existence of a human cage suspected of being a form of slavery at the house of the inactive Langkat Regent Terbit Angin Angin was revealed after the KPK came there to carry out a hand arrest operation (OTT).

Instead of finding Terbit, the KPK team found a number of people confined in an iron cage. At that time they claimed to be oil palm workers on Terbit's land.

Subsequently, these findings were reported by Migrant Care to Komnas HAM. In their report, they stated that the occupants of human cages experienced cruel behavior such as violence, irregular eating, unpaid work while working in Terbit's oil palm plantation and restricted access to communication with outsiders.