Police succeed in foiling a crime

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: Police officers and a government agency here foiled on Friday an attempt to smuggle 22 undocumented Indonesian women from a Kupang port to Malaysia.

In the raid at the Tanjung Lontar Tenau port, the joint police and government team arrested two employees from a local trafficking syndicate that smuggles women abroad, Ignatius Conterius, the head of East Nusa Tenggara Manpower Office, said on Sunday.

The young women came from various places in East Nusa Tenggara province. -- JP