Migrant workers robbed on return

Migrant workers robbed on return

PURWOKERTO, Central Java (JP): Four newly returned women
migrant workers were forced to hand over their money and strip
under threats they would be killed on Monday.

The women hired a vehicle from two men at the Soekarno-Hatta
International Airport after their arrival from Malaysia to reach
their homes in Central and East Java.

Murtinah, 23, of Demak, Central Java, told police that she and
her friends were charged Rp 200,000 each. During the journey the
men took them to an empty house where the harassment occurred.

The men -- identified as RP from Bogor, West Java, and YF from
Pulogadung, Jakarta, were arrested and detained at the Banyumas
police headquarters. (27)