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N. Sumatra Police tracking down Jakarta firm in foiled Cambodia trafficking scheme
A police investigation team has been deployed from North Sumatra to track down a recruitment company in Jakarta that was allegedly involved in recruiting migrant workers for what appears to be a human trafficking scheme.
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Airport shuttles are seen on Dec. 3, 2021 at Kualanamu International Airport in Deli Serdang, on the outskirts of Medan, the provincial capital of North Sumatra. (Antara/Fransisco Carolio)
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he North Sumatra Police have sent a team of investigators to Jakarta to track down a recruitment company involved in the alleged trafficking of 212 Indonesian workers to Cambodia, which was foiled last Friday in a joint operation mounted by immigration officials, police and the local migrant workers' protection agency (BP2MI).
The company’s name has been withheld, as the investigation is ongoing.
The regional police’s preliminary investigation found that the company used its website to recruit potential migrant workers from Aceh, East Java, Jambi, Jakarta, North Sumatra and West Kalimantan. It had then transported them to Medan and arranged their flights to Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
The police are still investigating why the recruitment company decided on the North Sumatra capita as a transit point, as well as how it had organized the workers’ departure by chartered plane from Kualanamu International Airport in Deli Serdang, on the city’s outskirts.
"We already knew the identity of the company and our team is in Jakarta for the investigation, with the assistance from the Jakarta Police," North Sumatra Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Hadi Wahyudi told The Jakarta Post on Monday. "We are also investigating the relationship between the company and online gambling rings in Cambodia.”
The police suspected that the workers would be employed by an illegal online gambling ring in Cambodia.
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