BP2MI Failed 14 CPMI Departure To Australia And Europe

Main Secretary of BP2MI Rinardi (center) Director of Protection and Empowerment of Europe and the Middle East of BP2MI Dayan Victor Imanuel Blegur (right)/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Migrant Worker Protection Agency (BP2MI) thwarted the departure of 14 Indonesian Migrant Workers Candidates (CPMI) who were about to be distributed from illegal companies to Australia and several countries in Europe. BP2MI's Main Secretary, Rinardi, said that the thwarting attempt was after the team conducted a surprise inspection (sidak) to Bekasi City, West Java, on Tuesday, March 7. "During the inspection, our team was accompanied by the head of the local RT and found 14 people consisting of 13 men and one woman," he explained in Jakarta, Antara, Thursday, March 9. He detailed that the 14 CPMIs were eight people from West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Province, four people from Lampung, one person from East Java, and one woman from North Sumatra. During the inspection, he found a number of documents from the CPMI such as passports, educational diplomas, family cards, birth certificates, SKCK, work permit, employment forms to the state, and life history. He said the 14 CPMIs had made reports of alleged non-procedural PMI placements to the police. "We have reported it to the Bekasi City Metro Police by including the documents that have been found to the Police for further processing," he said. However, his party has not been able to confirm the extent of the process carried out by the Police. Rinardi admitted that his party had pocketed the identity of an alleged perpetrator who distributed 14 Indonesian migrant workers from his company with the initials AIB to the countries of Australia, Poland and Serbia. "After being traced, it turns out that the company is also not registered with the Indonesian Migrant Workers Placement Company (P3MI) so it is suspected that there are efforts to place migrant workers non-procedurally," he said. Head of BP2MI Benny Rhamdani said sending migrant workers illegally abroad was an extraordinary crime. "The crime against PMI is extraordinary, not just the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO)," he said. He added that non-procedural CPMI shipments were carried out systematically, organized, and involved many parties, including elements in the ministry. Therefore, he considered that cooperation between government agencies was needed to fight these syndicates. "BP2MI realizes that this work cannot be done alone, it takes the cooperation of all parties to fight these human trafficking mafias," he said.