Komnas HAM Doesn't Want TIP Syndicate

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BADUNG - Komnas HAM does not want any impunity for all perpetrators of the Trafficking in Persons (TPPO) syndicate in ASEAN because the crime was organized and even involved law enforcement officers.

"We need to encourage the perpetrators at all levels of the syndicate not to be separated or there is impunity (cannot be punished)," said Komnas HAM member Anis Hidayah ahead of the Regional Conference related to the ASEAN TIP in Kuta, Bali, reported by ANTARA, Monday, November 6.

He expects stakeholders to move together to fight people's trade because he assesses the country in the Southeast Asia region as a TIP emergency.

Indonesia already has Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of TIP.

However, the current way the TIP syndicate works involves officers, after the Polda Metro Jaya arrested 12 members of the international network TIP syndicate on Thursday (20/7).

The syndicate involved unscrupulous members of the police and immigration officers in the case of selling kidney organs in Cambodia.

Komnas HAM also invites all stakeholders to strengthen their commitment to eradicating TIP considering the current mode of recruiting victims using technology or social media, one of which is through Facebook.

The victims were promised a certain job but it turned out that they were victims of online fraud (scamming).

"In the past year, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has handled and repatriated victims of scamming from several countries in ASEAN, more than 1,200 people. So this is an unusual situation and it is important to respond to," he said.

Based on data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Kemenlu), victims of TIP experience passport detention, unclear work contracts, excessive working hours to physical and verbal violence.

Since 2020, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recorded that many Indonesian citizens have been trapped in online scamming companies, most of which are in Southeast Asia and are experiencing exploitation.

Until May 2023, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handled 2,438 cases of Indonesian citizens trapped online scamming, which was around 50 percent or 1,233 Indonesian citizens in Cambodia.

The rest, in Myanmar as many as 205 Indonesian citizens, the Philippines (469), Laos (276), Thailand (187), Vietnam (34), Malaysia (30), United Arab Emirates (4).

Meanwhile, in 2022, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will repatriate 425 Indonesian citizens who have been trapped in the same case, and unfortunately, those who have been sent home, some return abroad to work in the same sector.