JAKARTA - The Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) stated that it is currently investigating the traces of the irresponsible perpetrators who illegally sent Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) to Myanmar.
"We are currently processing the distribution perpetrators because until now, we have not received complete information," said BP2MI Main Secretary Rinardi as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, May 8.
Rinardi said the difficulty in arresting the perpetrators was due to PMIs who were suspected of being victims of a criminal act of trafficking in persons (TPPO) and being held captive in Myanmar using tourist visas or Umrah visas.
Especially when cases occur in the Southeast Asia region, where every citizen is free to visit other countries because they only need a passport to be branded by officers at each entrance to the country.
After successfully dispatching PMIs illegally, usually there are perpetrators who are preparing to welcome PMI arrivals at airports or ports to be immediately taken away to other countries. This then makes the traces of the perpetrators increasingly difficult to track.
"In terms of terminology alone, people (who want to work) abroad are not allowed (without visas). So there are agents there to accommodate them, then workers are transferred from one country to another, without them knowing what to work for in Myanmar," he said.
According to him, because networks that have been widely spread across countries, apart from TIP syndicates, it is also possible that the perpetrators are close to victims such as their families or people who have experienced the same thing.
"Generally the distributors are usually their own families, so they have worked outside, then when they return to their hometowns, which are generally in Southeast Asian countries, they tell that working abroad is good then their families are affected," said Rinardi.
BPMI emphasized that education related to procedures for working abroad or tricks from the perpetrators must be more massively socialized to the public, especially in areas that are PMI bags.
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Because in the case of Myanmar, PMIs are lured to get high-paying workers but instead become victims of online scamming, regardless of how high the education of the victims is being held hostage.
Although some hostages have been rescued back to Indonesia, Rinardi appealed to all parties not to be tempted by offers from mafias that are often misleading. BPMI also asks workers to think carefully, and find out whether the intended country is one of the PMI's placement countries, so they are not trapped non-procedurally and get the job as desired.
"Don't look at their education, the responsibility lies with us. We must not say (this incident) is the responsibility of the community to believe, we must also take a position and introspect the extent to which the government and BP2MI are responsible for conducting massive socialization to the regions," he said.
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