TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Tempo English compiled the top three news on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Here are the highlights: Chinese Citizen Arrested in Abu Dhabi for Fraud, Human Trafficking of 800 Indonesians, Indonesian Textile Industry Faces Crisis with 21 Factory Closures, 150,000 Layoffs, and 4 Mekong Countries Home to Groups Running Most Online Gambling Sites in Indonesia.

The following is the list of the top 3 news on Tempo English today:

1. Chinese Citizen Arrested in Abu Dhabi for Fraud, Human Trafficking of 800 Indonesians

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The National Police arrested a Chinese citizen with the initials SZ for fraud and human trafficking against 800 Indonesian citizens.

Head of the Information Bureau and Public Relations Division of the National Police, Brigadier General Police Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko, explained that on Thursday, June 27, 2024, Interpol NCB of Abu Dhabi handed SZ over to the National Police.

“We fetched the suspect, SZ, in the Middle East. His case is fraud or online scam and human trafficking," said Trunoyudo, as quoted on the National Police Public Relations Division website on Friday, June 28, 2024.

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2. Indonesian Textile Industry Faces Crisis with 21 Factory Closures, 150,000 Layoffs

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's textile industry is struggling, according to the chairman of the Indonesian Fiber and Filament Yarn Producers Association (APsyFI), Redma Gita Wirawasta. As of June 2024, 21 textile factories have closed and another 31 are at risk. Since 2022, the capacity utilization of the factories has dropped significantly.

"Until the second quarter of 2022, our capacity utilization was still 72 percent," he said by phone on Friday, June 28, 2024. He explained that a number of textile and garment companies that were members of ApsyFI had closed.

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3. 4 Mekong Countries Home to Groups Running Most Online Gambling Sites in Indonesia

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police said that most of the online gambling sites accessible in Indonesia are controlled by operators based in the Greater Mekong Subregion, such as China, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. The police also discovered that bookies deliberately employed citizens of Indonesia and other countries as operators to expand the market.

"The people behind it are mostly organized as this is a transnational crime operated by groups from countries in the Mekong region," National Police International Relations chief Insp. Gen. Pol Krishna Murti said at a press conference in South Jakarta on Tuesday, June 25.

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