Prospective PMI Illegal Victims Of Accident In Waters Kabil Arrested By The Riau Islands Police In Banten

Ditpolairud Polda Riau Islands conducted a press release case in the arrest of the perpetrators of the shelter of prospective illegal migrant workers drowning in Batam/ANTARA waters

The Directorate of Water and Air Police of the Riau Islands Regional Police arrested one person who accommodated six prospective illegal Indonesian migrant workers who were victims of a ship accident in the waters of Kabil, Batam City, Monday, November 14. "The perpetrator with the initials BK was arrested in Serang, Banten, last Monday. He is a collector and administrator of a prospective migrant worker whose ship had an accident in Batam waters some time ago,” said Deputy Director of Polairud Polda Riau Islands AKBP Cakhyo Dipo Alam in Batam, Antara, Wednesday, November 23. Cakhyo revealed that the perpetrator was an Acehnese who lived in Batam. He fled to Banten until he was finally arrested, shortly after receiving news that the ship carrying prospective migrant workers he was taking care of had an accident and claimed lives. This BK is known to have carried out many actions and is included in the syndicate sending illegal migrant workers to Malaysia. "In this case, the perpetrator also received orders from one of the perpetrators in Malaysia. He was ordered to pick up the victim to be taken to Malaysia and get a profit of IDR 5 million from the perpetrator who was in Malaysia," said Cakhyo. He explained that from the ship accident in Batam waters, Ditpolairud together with Basarnas Tanjungpinang managed to find seven victims, with one person safe and six others dead. "While one accident victim who has not been found is a man who according to information is the tekong or captain of the wooden ship," he said. For his actions, the suspect BK was charged with Article 81 in conjunction with Article 69 of Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Service Agency (BP3MI) Riau Islands Amingga M. Primastito added that the large demand for workers abroad has made prospective migrant workers continue to arrive in the Batam City area which is a transit point towards neighboring countries. For this reason, his party continues to disseminate information and education to the public so that they do not use unofficial channels to become migrant workers abroad.