Nestapa Rika Oktaviani, PMI Sukabumi Who Drinks Water Because He Is Hungry, Is Not Paid By His Employer In Saudi Arabia

PMI meeting his family in Sukabumi (Photo Via Antara)

SUKABUMI - The Sukabumi Police have developed the case of Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) from Sukabumi Regency, West Java, who claimed that they were not given a salary while working in Saudi Arabia. Even though PMI is also 'forced' to work overtime, aka overtime every day.

"We are still developing the case of a PMI from Cidahu District, Rika Oktaviani (25) which had gone viral on social media because while working in Saudi Arabia he never received any wages, even eating and drinking was very difficult," said Sukabumi Police Chief AKBP Dedy Darmawansyah here. Sukabumi, Antara, Monday, March 7th.

Dedy explained, if the results of the development contained a criminal element, the opportunity was opened to proceed to the investigation stage. According to him, investigators have ordered the ranks of the Criminal Investigation Unit and the Women and Children Protection Unit (PPA) of the Sukabumi Police to uncover this case, starting from how this PMI was able to leave to working without pay in Saudi Arabia.

His party has also received information and data from the Indonesian Embassy's Police Attache and immediately conducted an in-depth investigation by conducting a case related to the case that befell this 'hero of foreign exchange'.

On the other hand, he also appreciated the staff who had moved quickly to send Rika back to her hometown so that she could reunite with her two children.

To repatriate PMI, his party coordinated with the West Java Regional Police and cooperated with the Indonesian Embassy's Police Attache in Saudi Arabia to find out Rika's whereabouts in Saudi Arabia.

After his whereabouts were known, the Indonesian Embassy returned him to his homeland and PPA personnel from the Sukabumi Police Satreskrim picked him up at a guesthouse in the Kebon Jeruk area, West Jakarta. Rika returned to Sukabumi after carrying out self-isolation first.

Meanwhile, Rika admitted that during the two months she worked in Saudi Arabia she had never received a salary and it was difficult to eat and drink. He even had to constantly drink tap water to keep his hunger, thirst and fatigue at bay.

He also expressed his gratitude to the Sukabumi Police, especially the Sukabumi Police Chief AKBP Dedy Darmawansyah and the journalists or press personnel who had helped him so he could return to his hometown.

"I went to Saudi Arabia and worked in that country after I met someone who claimed to be a PMI departure agent and promised to give me a job as a babysitter, but in reality I was placed in a shelter and then employed as a domestic assistant and other manual laborers and was never given a salary. ," he said.