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Police in Indonesia announced that it dismantled four human trafficking networks that sent 1,200 domestic workers to Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.
According to the Jakarta Post, which quotes the Indonesian press agency, criminal investigation director Brig. Gen. Herry Rudolf Nahak said, Tuesday, that two people were arrested for «reportedly trafficking people from West Nusa Tenggara and Jakarta to Morocco». The same source indicated that the suspects trafficked their victims through Malaysia to Morocco.
«These migrant Indonesian workers realized that they had been duped after they were forced to suffer many abuses including violence, rape and unpaid salaries. They ran away and reported their cases to the embassies or consulate general offices», Herry told the Indonesian press agency.
The four networks promised their victims that they would receive high wages. Police will «charge the eight suspects under articles 4 and 10 of the Human Trafficking Law, which carry a maximum punishment of 15 years in prison».
