Police thwart sending of illegal migrants

Police thwart sending of illegal migrants

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: The Kupang Police have foiled an
attempt by a local manpower recruitment agency to send illegal
migrant workers to Malaysia.

Kupang Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Agus Nugroho said that his
officers were holding 42 migrant workers from Sumba Island in
East Nusa Tenggara province for questioning following a raid on a
boat tied up at Kupang Port at dawn on Thursday.

Paulus Ngongo, one of the migrant workers, said that the
migrant workers were to be sent to Nunukan, East Kalimantan,
where they were to enter Malaysia.

He said that he had paid Rp 85,000 (US$8.9) to a local
manpower recruitment agency, which had promised to transport him
to Nunukan and provide him with immigration documents to allow
him to work in the neighboring country. -- JP