Involved In Falsifying The Data Of 120 Migrant Workers From East Lombok, This Man Was Also Arrested For Flirting With Children Until Pregnant

Head of Public Relations of the NTB Polda Kombes Pol Artanto (center) with the Director General of Criminal Investigation of the NTB Police Kombes Pol Hari Brata and his staff (Photo: ANTARA)

NTB - The NTB Regional Police arrested a man suspected of acting as a recruiter, host, and administrator of the departure documents of 120 illegal Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) from East Lombok Regency with the initials LS (48).

The Head of Public Relations of the NTB Police, Kombes Artanto, explained that the disclosure of the case began with the report of a PMI candidate who was still a minor and is now a victim of immoral crime.

"So the victim is already one month pregnant. The victim became pregnant because the perpetrator had sex while in the shelter," said Artanto at a press conference at the NTB Police Headquarters Thursday, July 22, quoted from Antara.

In investigating the victim's report with the initials PU, the Sub-Directorate IV Team for Youth, Children and Women (Renakta) revealed the role of LS who was suspected of having falsified the victim's personal data into an adult category.

This is allegedly done so that the victim passes the requirements to become a PMI as promised by the perpetrator to work in the Middle East region.

"This perpetrator made a new victim's personal data. The victim's family card was forged. Originally born on February 15, 2004, the year was changed to 1998," he said.

After making new personal data, the perpetrator immediately took the victim to the shelter location. The same applies to passport and departure visas. His status is not PMI but as a traveler.

"The passport and visa are made in Sumbawa," he said.

Hari Brata also explained that the perpetrators allegedly carried out this modus operandi for other victims. Of the many PMIs under the auspices of the perpetrators, 70 of them were revealed to have departed illegally for the Middle East region.

"They departed on tourist visas, not labor," said Hari Brata.

Then 50 other people, including PU victims, continued Hari, still in the administrative process of making passports and visas at the immigration office. Some of them said Hari had been accommodated in Jakarta.

Related to this, he emphasized that his party would investigate the existence of a shelter in Jakarta which is suspected to be still in the same network with the perpetrators.

The emergence of a CB network in Jakarta is strengthened by the benefits that are obtained in every PMI recruitment. The compensation received by the perpetrators reached Rp. 12 million per head.

"So we will continue to develop this case. We are moving from upstream here and of course it will develop to locations in Jakarta," he said.

Furthermore, LS has now been named a suspect and is undergoing detention at the NTB Police Rutan. In his status, LS is suspected of Article 6, Article 10, and/or Article 11 of Law No. 21/2007 on the Eradication of the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TPPO) with a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine of Rp600 million.