Sukabumi Police Investigate Alleged Human Trafficking Case

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police in Sukabumi district, West Java, Indonesia are investigating a possible human trafficking case involving three residents of Parungkuda sub-district.

"We will study the case and ask for information from their families to learn about the alleged human trafficking case which involved residents of Sukabumi district. The three victims are allegedly being locked up in a factory in the Malaysian state of Serawak," the head of the woman and child protection unit at the Sukabumi district police, Brigadier Agus Nugroho, said on Friday as quoted by Antara News.

He added that the police will coordinate with the Womens Forum of Sukabumi District which, for the first time, were first to release information about the case. The police will also cooperate with the Indonesian Embassy in Malaysia to rescue the three victims of human trafficking.

"We have already identified the descriptions of the people who brought the three residents to Malaysia illegally. They had been acquainted with the victims. We are chasing the culprits of the alleged human trafficking," he said.

The case came to the light after the Women Forum of Sukabumi District received a report from the families of the three victims.

"The three victims are a 23-year old woman known as A, a 19-year old man called EG and a 23-year old man identified as ID. The case surfaced after EG managed to contact his family in Sukabumi, saying he had been locked up by his employer and has not received his salary," said chief of the forum Elis Nurbaeti.

ANTARA