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)