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    "data": {
        "id": 1398084,
        "msgid": "20-deceived-over-job-offers-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-10-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "20 deceived over job offers",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "20 deceived over job offers JAKARTA (JP): Twenty people deceived by a local labor supplier promising them jobs in Australia have asked immigration officials for help to reclaim their passports from the company. A spokesman for the directorate general of immigration, Mursanudin Ghani, said on Thursday that his office suspected the firm's president, identified as Taufiq Abdad, of misusing the applicants' passports.",
        "content": "<p>20 deceived over job offers<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Twenty people deceived by a local labor supplier<br>\npromising them jobs in Australia have asked immigration officials<br>\nfor help to reclaim their passports from the company.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the directorate general of immigration,<br>\nMursanudin Ghani, said on Thursday that his office suspected the<br>\nfirm's president, identified as Taufiq Abdad, of misusing the<br>\napplicants' passports.<\/p>\n<p>\"The job seekers came to us to ask for help in getting Taufiq<br>\nto return their passports,\" Ghani said, giving no further<br>\nexplanation.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, immigration enforcement chief Haryo Sasongko<br>\nquoted the victims as saying that each had paid between AU$500<br>\n(US$294) and AU$2,500 to Taufiq's PT Total Usaha Putra Indonesia<br>\non the strength of jobs they had been offered in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\"Taufiq promised the job seekers employment in various<br>\ncompanies in Australia such as at doll company, a perfume maker<br>\nand a casino,\" Sasongko said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks after handing over their money, the people became<br>\nsuspicious of the company, he said.<\/p>\n<p>None of them have been given their passports back, Sasongko<br>\nadded.<\/p>\n<p>Sasongko said the job seekers got the information about the<br>\nopportunities for employment from the company's secretary,<br>\nidentified as Dini.<\/p>\n<p>At least 60 people registered an interest in vacancies<br>\nadvertised by the company.<\/p>\n<p>\"At least 20 of the applicants have been flown to Australia,\"<br>\nSasongko quoted one of the job seekers, Wita, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Sasongko said that the case had been reported to the police.<br>\nIt remains unclear whether the workers to-be have also reported<br>\nthe fraud to the Ministry of Manpower.<\/p>\n<p>He said his office had sent the company three letters seeking<br>\nclarification of the allegations but had yet to receive a reply.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration officials sent on an impromptu visit to the<br>\ncompany's office in Bapindo Plaza on Jl. Sudirman in South<br>\nJakarta found the premises unoccupied, he added. (jun)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/20-deceived-over-job-offers-1447893297",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
    "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com"
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