TIP At The Kalibata City Apartment: 8 Illegal CPMIs Given Pilgrimage Visa

Deputy Head Of Criminal Investigation Unit Of South Jakarta Police Commissioner Hendrikus Yossi Hendrata/ Photo: Jehan/ VOI

JAKARTA Cases of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO) against 8 illegal Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) were revealed by the South Jakarta Metro Police.

Deputy Head of Criminal Investigation at the South Jakarta Police, Kompol Hendrikus Yossi Hendrata, said the TIP case was centered at the Kalibata Apartment, Pancoran, South Jakarta, February 4, 2024, and then.

"We have arrested one suspect with the initials DA (36). In this case, there are also 8 people who are victims or PMI candidates who will depart procedurally or non-procedural CPMI," Yossi told reporters at the South Jakarta Metro Police, Monday, March 18.

Yossi explained, initially there was a report from the West Java Province BP3MI obtained from the victim's husband regarding his wife's illegal departure to Saudi Arabia.

The thing that underlies the victim's husband reporting is that regarding his promise to work in Dubai, it was apparently sent to Saudi Arabia.

After going through a series of investigations, it turned out that we received information that there were other victims being accommodated at the Kalibata Apartment, South Jakarta.

"(It turns out) there are 7 other people, who were also placed or accommodated in the Kalibata Apartment, which at that time was being prepared for departure to Saudi Arabia," he continued.

DA was secured to the South Jakarta Police with a number of evidences, namely 3 visas and 7 passports, 1 cellphone, and others.

DA admitted that he was just an order from his superior with the initials Mr. M, who is currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. According to DA, the CPMI were promised a salary of 1,200 Riyals or Rp. 5,024,400 (if 1 Riyal Rp. 4,187).

"But all legality is not owned by sister DA or Mr. M, starting from the holding permit and the person concerned is also not a company providing migrant workers. So the visa issued by these three is a pilgrimage visa. So it's not related to work, it's not, but pilgrimage visas," he said.

Currently, DA has been named a suspect and charged with Article 81 of Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Migrant Workers with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, as well as Article 2 of Law Number 22 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.