JAKARTA, Aug 10 (NNN-ANTARA) – Police in Indonesia have stepped up measures against human trafficking, with the arrest of nearly 900 named suspects for the crime, over the past two months.
The country’s National Police spokesman, Ahmad Ramadan, said here today that, the police’s human trafficking task force had arrested 895 suspects, involved in the trafficking of more than 2,000 victims since early June.
“There are 750 police reports, and the total number of rescued victims is 2,283,” he said.
Indonesia, the world’s fourth-largest population, is one of the largest labour-exporting nations in Southeast Asia.
According to Ramadan, many of the rescued victims were lured to work as housemaids, or boat crew members, on the promise of better pay, with several cases of prostitution and child exploitation.– NNN-ANTARA
