Police Receive Hundreds Of Reports On TIP: 375 Use Major Salary Mode, The Rest Work As Prostitutes

Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan (Rizky AP/VOI)

JAKARTA - The National Police's Criminal Action Task Force or (TPPO) continues to investigate 494 Police Reports (LP) that have been received until June 22. From the results of the provisional disclosure, the mode used by the perpetrators the most is to lure the victim into being a housemaid (PRT) with a large salary. "Most of them are luring victims to work as Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) or Domestic Workers (PRT). This mode is recorded as 375 cases," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, Brigadier General Ahmad Ramadhan in his statement, Friday, June 23. An example of a case with this mode was revealed by the Riau Islands Police. Two minors will be illegally dispatched to Malaysia. They are lured to work in a billiards place with a salary of Rp. 10 million per 10 days Another mode that is often used by the TIP network is that the victim is used as a Commercial Sex Worker (PSK). It is recorded that there are 132 cases that have been revealed using this mode. "The task force has handled 494 police reports. Of the hundreds of LPs, 580 suspects have been arrested," he said. Of the hundreds of cases handled by the TIP Task Force, Bareskrim Polri and Polda ranks, 1,671 PMI Illegal candidates were rescued. Of that number, 145 of them are children. "Of the thousands of victims, Ramadhan detailed that there were 762 adult female victims and 96 child girls. Then for adult male victims there were 764 and 49 male children," he said.

On the other hand, of the hundreds of cases that have been revealed, 92 cases are still in the investigation stage. Then 375 cases have been investigated. "There is one case with the complete file or P21," said Ramadhan.