Indonesia committed to curb human trafficking

In a press statement at the state palace in Jakarta, head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Protection Agency Benny Rhamdani said his office will carry out its commitment to combat syndicates and mafias in human trafficking to following President Joko Widodo's order on curbing such crimes against humanity.

Benny emphasized that alerts about human trafficking have emerged since the World Bank issued data of 9 million Indonesian citizens working abroad in 2017 in which many of the migrant workers were victims of abuse or exploitation by unlicensed recruitment agencies.

In the last three years, the Indonesian migrant workers’ protection agency has taken care some 94,000 Indonesian nationals who were deported from Asian and Middle Eastern countries as 90 percent were manipulated by unofficial networks and dispatched by illegal recruiters.