Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara | Tue, 01/24/2012 7:20 PM
The West Nusa Tenggara administration is trying to return home its five female residents who allegedly have become victims of human trafficking.
The five women are currently staying in a shelter set up by the Riau Islands administration’s Community Service Center for Protection of Women and Children (P2TP2A).
“The social agency and the women empowerment board is processing the return of the five women who allegedly have been trafficked,” West Nusa Tenggara Manpower and Transmigration Agency Head Mukhlis said Tuesday.
He added that the agency aimed to bring them home within the week.
“We will take them all to their home villages,” Mukhlis said.
He pointed out that the women, aged between 20 and 25 years old, came from Dompu and Bima regencies.
The West Nusa Tenggara Manpower and Transmigration Agency found out about the five women on Jan. 15 after a non-governmental organization operating in Riau Islands reported the case to the province’s woman empowerment agency via a letter, he said.
“We found out through the letter that there were five women who became victims of human trafficking. The modus operandi was to recruit those women as migrant workers,” he said.
Mukhlis cited PT Fahat Fajar Mustika as the company that initially planned to send the women to Oman. The five women were first sent to the Overseas Labor Training Center (BLKLN) in Jakarta.
“In reality, they were not sent to Oman, but were transferred to another party,” he said, adding that his agency had warned PT Fahat Fajar Mustika and had put the company in its blacklist.
Mukhlis said the province had recorded 93 human trafficking cases in 2011 and 102 cases in 2010.
The perpetrators usually lure women with high salaries to work abroad,but instead they are sent to nightclubs.
“We urge people to be alert to this kind of persuasion,” he said. (swd/mtq)
The West Nusa Tenggara administration is trying to return home its five female residents who allegedly have become victims of human trafficking.
The five women are currently staying in a shelter set up by the Riau Islands administration’s Community Service Center for Protection of Women and Children (P2TP2A).
“The social agency and the women empowerment board is processing the return of the five women who allegedly have been trafficked,” West Nusa Tenggara Manpower and Transmigration Agency Head Mukhlis said Tuesday.
He added that the agency aimed to bring them home within the week.
“We will take them all to their home villages,” Mukhlis said.
He pointed out that the women, aged between 20 and 25 years old, came from Dompu and Bima regencies.
The West Nusa Tenggara Manpower and Transmigration Agency found out about the five women on Jan. 15 after a non-governmental organization operating in Riau Islands reported the case to the province’s woman empowerment agency via a letter, he said.
“We found out through the letter that there were five women who became victims of human trafficking. The modus operandi was to recruit those women as migrant workers,” he said.
Mukhlis cited PT Fahat Fajar Mustika as the company that initially planned to send the women to Oman. The five women were first sent to the Overseas Labor Training Center (BLKLN) in Jakarta.
“In reality, they were not sent to Oman, but were transferred to another party,” he said, adding that his agency had warned PT Fahat Fajar Mustika and had put the company in its blacklist.
Mukhlis said the province had recorded 93 human trafficking cases in 2011 and 102 cases in 2010.
The perpetrators usually lure women with high salaries to work abroad,but instead they are sent to nightclubs.
“We urge people to be alert to this kind of persuasion,” he said. (swd/mtq)
