6 Indonesians Arrested For Alleged Human Trafficking Into Iraq
Farouk Arnaz | December 27, 2009
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The National Police have arrested six members of the same family for allegedly trafficking at least 50 Indonesian migrant workers into the province of Kurdistan in conflict-ravaged Iraq, a police source told the Jakarta Globe.
“We arrested them last week at their house in Cimanggis, in Depok, West Java,” said the source, who asked that his name not be published as he is not authorized to speak to the media.
Those arrested were identified as the mastermind Lailasari, her husband Kusparwanto, her father Hasan C. Rosyana and her uncles Anwar Sanusi, Dayat Hidayat and R. Sumartono.
Chief Comr. M. Iriawan, the deputy of security and transnational affairs at National Police headquarters, confirmed the arrests. “They could be charged under the Law on Eradication of Trafficking in Persons and the Law on Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers Abroad,” he said.
Indonesia does not recognize Iraq as an official destination country for migrant workers.
Official destination countries include Hong Kong, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates.
Workers are currently banned from being sent to Malaysia in light of a number of abuse cases and ongoing human rights abuses.
“We uncovered this case after one of their victims reported to our embassy in Dubai when she stopped to transit there,” Iriawan said. “She was on the way to Iraq through Jordan when she realized that it was forbidden for Indonesian workers to work in Iraq.”
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