Kaltara Police Arrest 19 TIP Suspects, Most Of The Cases Of Illegal Workers

Illustration of human trafficking (ANTARA)

TARAKAN - North Kalimantan Police (Katantala) and Nunukan Police during the period January to April 2024 arrested 19 suspects in 13 cases of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO) and the Crime of Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI).

"In addition to arresting 19 suspects, we have also named 12 people on the People's Wanted List (DPO)," said Director of the Directorate of General Investigation and Crime (Ditreskrimum) of the North Kalimantan Police, Kombes Pol Taufik Herdiansyah Zeinardi, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, May 2.

Details of 13 cases handled by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the North Kalimantan Police are seven cases with four cases completed (P21), then the Nunukan Police in line revealed as many as six cases with two cases that had been completed (P21).

"From the total disclosure, the number of victims we managed to save was 102 people," said Taufik.

During the press conference, Taufik was accompanied by the Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) Nunukan Kombes Pol. F. Jaya Ginting, Nunukan Police Chief AKBP Taufik Nurmandia and Nunukan Police Criminal Investigation Unit AKP Lusgi Simanungkalit.

The alleged article is the Crime of Trafficking in Persons and the Crime of Protection of Migrant Workers as referred to in Article 10 in conjunction with Article 4 of Law No. 21 of 2007 concerning the Crime of Trafficking in Persons.

Or, Article 81 in conjunction with Article 69 junto Article 83 in conjunction with Article 68 junto Article 5 letter B to letter E of Law No. 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers in conjunction with Article 53 of the Criminal Code with a penalty of imprisonment of 3-15 years and a fine of Rp. 120 million to Rp. 15 billion.