JAKARTA - The Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI) thwarted the departure of 85 Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) when they were about to depart through the Tenau Port in Kupang City, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
"There were 85 PMIs who failed to depart because we secured them in preventing and monitoring passenger departure activities at the Tenau Port," said Head of the Central BP2MI Team Bripka Rizal Adhi in his statement, Monday, May 15, as quoted by Antara.
Dozens of CPMIs were secured when the Central BP2MI together with a task force from the NTT Provincial Manpower and Transmigration Office and the Tenau Sector Police examined documents and interviewed prospective passengers who were about to leave NTT on Friday, May 12.
The CPMIs, he continued, were about to go to work on oil palm plantations in Kumai District, Kotawaringin Barat Regency, Central Kalimantan (Kalteng), but did not have a recommendation document and Inter-Regional Inter-Cooperation Agreement (AKAD).
"The destination areas for their departure are indicated as transit areas to then go abroad," he said.
Rizal said that the prevention and monitoring of passenger departures was carried out as a preventive measure to prevent illegal human trafficking and sending PMIs.
Apart from the Tenau Port, similar activities were also carried out at Kupang's El Tari Airport.
He emphasized that efforts to prevent the delivery of illegal PMIs are very important in order to reduce the high number of cases of illegal PMI shipments.
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Moreover, he said, the interest of residents working in domestic and foreign PMI placement areas is very high so that it also has an impact on the high departure of PMI which is carried out illegally.
"Currently, not a few PMIs are dispatched illegally, including from the NTT region. 89 percent of them end up experiencing problems because they do not get government protection," he said.
He invited all residents and local governments to the village level to jointly stop crimes against humanity in the form of illegally sending PMIs.
"Efforts to prevent the departure of illegal PMIs must be a shared responsibility between the community and the government to the village level," he said.
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