The Ministry Of Manpower Asks Police To Join The International Trafficikat Of Trafficking

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Manpower has asked the National Police to thoroughly investigate cases of criminal acts of trafficking in persons (TPPO) by syndicates of distribution of Indonesian migrant workers from the international network.

"We ask the police to suppress the international TPPO syndicate that distributes workers abroad," said the Director of Bina Riksa Kemnaker, Yuli Adiratna, after attending a press conference on the TPPO case at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police Headquarters, Tangerang, Friday, February 10.

According to him, the disclosure of the international network syndicate case is a good first step in thorough investigation of the possibility of other victims. Including dismantling syndicates that are suppliers of migrant workers non-procedurally abroad.

"It can be seen that the police are very serious in uncovering the criminal act of placing non-procedural PMI (Indonesian Migrant Workers)," he said.

Nevertheless, his party will continue to encourage all parties to take preventive measures by taking firm action against the perpetrators of the person's trade.

"The government, in the event that the Ministry of Manpower is aggressively preventing the placement of PMI candidates non-procedurally aka Illegal," he said.

Previously, Soekarno Hatta Airport Police dismantled an international syndicate of people trafficking crimes (TPPO) through Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

The modus operandi is to distribute Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) non-procedurally to Middle Eastern countries based on reports from the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower.

In this disclosure, it began when the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) together with investigators from the Airport Police Satreskrim managed to thwart the efficacy of 38 prospective migrant workers. They were secured at gate 5 area of International departure Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta Airport on October 17, 2022.

Based on this result, the police arrested three male suspects with the initials MAB (49), ABM (46), a resident of East Jakarta and a woman with the initials RC (43), a resident of Lebak, Banten.