Over 250 women rescued

Over 250 women rescued

TANGERANG: The Tangerang Police rescued on Friday some 259 women
locked in a job training center belonging to PT Adi Santa Kencana
Mas on Jl. Iskandar Muda 8, Neglasari, Tangerang.

Muji Handoyo, an official of the Directorate of Overseas
Manpower Placement and Development at the Ministry of Manpower
and Transmigration, and several officials from the Tangerang
Manpower Agency oversaw the rescue of the workers.

The women, who had been promised training and then jobs
overseas working as maids in Middle Eastern countries, were taken
to Tangerang Police Headquarters in several police vehicles.

Tangerang Police deputy chief Comr. IGD Sugianyar said that
the police rescued the job seekers and closed the training center
after National Police chief Gen. Dai Bachtiar gave the order.

Handoyo said the workers would be sent home after the police
had identified them, saying that their travel expenses would be
paid by the ministry.

Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Jacob Nuwa Wea
reportedly revoked the permits granted to PT Adisanta Kencana Mas
as a company that recruits migrant workers, due to the owner's
inability to fulfill necessary obligations. --JP