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Police nab 5 at airport for sending illegal migrants
TANGERANG: Police have arrested three women and two men at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, for having allegedly sent migrant workers abroad without permission from the government
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TANGERANG: Police have arrested three women and two men at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, for having allegedly sent migrant workers abroad without permission from the government.
The women were identified as SR, MHY and NR, and the men AS and MH.
The agents were arrested while arranging departure documents for would-be migrant workers at the airport's domestic departure terminal last week, Airport police chief Sr. Comr. Guntur Setyanto said Thursday.
The five suspects testified to having planned to send 37 women to three neighboring countries, such as Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, to work as house maids. The women were aged between 15 and 17.
Police also seized 37 passports of the workers.
Guntur said the suspects tried to send the workers overseas via Batam without written contracts between the workers and their would-be employers as required under the 2004 law on the placement and protection of migrant workers.
The suspects will be charged for violating this law and face up to five years in prison. - JP
