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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Saturday he had instructed the National Police to send a special team to investigate rampant human trafficking leading to organ trading in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).

The President gave the instruction to National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian after receiving reports of 27 people who had been trafficked to Malaysia and had had their organs taken from their bodies. One of the victims, Yufrida Selan, 14, was sent home dead with her internal organs cut out of her body and stitches along her spine, indicating that her body had been cut open for the procedure.

“I’ve asked the National Police chief to pay special attention to this human trafficking case as it involves the organ trade and there were 27 victims,” Jokowi said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Fendy Mugni, a committee member of Pospera, a group of NTT Jokowi supporters during the 2014 presidential election, said that Yufrida’s parents planned to meet Jokowi but the meeting did not happen due to the President’s tight schedule.

Jokowi also instructed the police to work with the military to resolve the case.