JAKARTA - Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) Benny Rhamdani said dozens of Indonesian migrant workers held in Cambodia will be immediately repatriated to the country this week.
"More or less after today's evacuation, in the next 2-3 days it will be possible to return to Indonesia," he said as reported by ANTARA, Monday, August 1.
He explained that the Indonesian government would evacuate all PMIs held captive. The workers will be temporarily accommodated in Phnom Penh after traveling about six hours from the location of detention. Furthermore, BPMI will receive them in the country and immediately repatriate them to their hometowns.
He said BP2MI on July 18 2022 received information as many as 52 PMIs being held in Cambodia. The distance is very far, about 260 kilometers from Phnom Penh.
Then on July 19-20 2022, he said, his party communicated with the Directorate of Protection of Indonesian Citizens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"We tried to contact the two PMIs who were held captive, namely Andar Sugianto and Yuda Prabowo," he said.
The two PMIs, he said, admitted that they were being held captive and even physically abused. They also need immediate evacuation measures.
Previously, the Cambodian Police together with the Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh had again succeeded in rescuing seven Indonesian citizens from the confinement of an Online Scammer Company in Sihanoukville, Cambodia (31/7).
This success increased the number of Indonesian citizens who could be saved to a total of 62 people based on information from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received in Jakarta, Sunday (31/7).
The additional number of Indonesian citizens is based on further investigation from the Cambodian Police. Previously, on July 30, 2022, as many as 55 Indonesian citizens were successfully released by the Cambodian Police and the Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh.
According to the plan, the 62 Indonesian citizens will be transferred to the Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh on July 31, 2022 at night local time.
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