Migrant workers flee labor agency

MEDAN, North Sumatra: Six women from East Nusa Tenggara province seeking work in Medan left a labor recruitment agency in the city, fearing that they might be sold into prostitution, a police officer said on Friday.

They are now in safe hands, said chief of Medan Police detectives First. Insp. M. Taufik.

Hesti, one of the women, said that they had stayed in the office of the labor recruitment agency for a month without any news of employment in Malaysia. -- JP