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Missing Underage Indonesian Girls Feared to Be in Malaysia
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Kupang. Police in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, are currently investigating the suspected trafficking of five underage girls involving a local labor recruitment agency, authorities said on Tuesday.

Sources at the East Nusa Tenggara Police headquarters in Kupang told the Jakarta Globe that they had questioned several witnesses but still had no clue as to the whereabouts of the girls, aged 13 to 15.

Speculation is rife that Wendelina Sila, Adriana Miane, Rofina Renat, Olcis Ceunfin, and Wendelina Betti have been sent to Malaysia to work in the sex trade.

Hailing from South Netemnanu ward in North Amfoang subdistrict, East Nusa Tenggara, the girls have been missing since May last year. However, their parents only recently informed the police.

“We just learned from a local labor recruitment agency several days ago that our daughters may have been sold to a Jakarta labor agency,” Pius Sila, one of the girls’ parents, told the media at the provincial police headquarters on Tuesday.

Pius said the girls were recruited by Florentina Banu Baria, who claimed to work for labor agency PT Manggarti Kupang, to work as domestic workers in Kupang.

“They were taken to Kupang without our consent,” he said. “We were told that the girls would be working in Kupang but we cannot find them. We have checked with the labor agency and were told that the girls may have been sent to Jakarta. We don’t know their whereabouts,” Pius said.

However, a staff member at Manggarti Kupang said the company had not recruited the girls. He said they were offered to the company but its management turned them away because they were underage.

“We don’t know anything about the girls. We declined to hire them because they were underage and we did not want to get in trouble later on,” he said.

Pius said they were afraid the girls had been sent overseas, possibly to Malaysia, to work as sex workers.

Police have named Malaysia as one of the destination countries for underage Indonesian girls duped into prostitution.