JAKARTA (Bernama-Xinhua): Police in Indonesia have stepped up measures against human trafficking, with nearly 900 named suspects for the crime over the past two months, reported Xinhua.
The country's National Police spokesman Ahmad Ramadan said here on Thursday that the police's human trafficking task force had arrested 895 suspects involved in the trafficking of more than 2,000 victims since early June.
"There are 750 police reports, and the total number of victims rescued is 2,283," he said.
Indonesia, the world's fourth-largest population, is one of the largest labour-exporting nations in South-East Asia.
According to Ramadan, many of the rescued victims were lured to work as housemaids or boat crew. - Bernama-Xinhua
An anti-people smuggling task force was establishedin early July, following directives from President Joko Widodo, who also initiated a regional response to combat people smuggling in Southeast Asia during Indonesia’s chairmanship of Asean this year. - Bernama-Xinhua
