NGO foils trafficking of illegal workers to India

MATARAM: An attempt to illegally send 48 Indonesians for jobs in India was foiled by an NGO in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB).

The Alliance Concerned for Indonesian Migrant Workers (ALIBI) said Wednesday the 48 men, from Sumbawa and Lombok, were required by their brokers to each pay Rp 5 million.

"We found the visas they held were not for work overseas, but for tourism," NTB's ALIBI leader Andy Irwansah Saputra said.

He was suspicious that the prospective migrant workers were to be trafficked to India by a man identified only as BB, who reportedly managed to evade police arrest. - JP