Ansor's Legal Aid Institute urges govt to freeze illegal workers service agencies

Yogyakarta, NU Online
The Legal Aid Institute (LBH) of Yogyakarta's Ansor has urged the government to freeze and ban the existence of illegal workers service agencies following the death of a woman worker Sudaryanti from Sleman, Yogyakarta.

The 28-year-old worker's death has till now remained unclear. As reported the Indonesian national having been working in Malaysia since two years ago died in Medan North Sumatra on last 17 March.<>

The information of Sudaryanti's death was delivered by a person named Pendeta Surya Kumar to her family. Her family has formerly unbelieved over the Sudaryanti's death till the coming of an official information sent via facsimile from Medan's police on last 4 April.

The family said the cause of Sudaryanti's death was full of such awkwardness and tried to bring her corpse home. Unfortunately the Indonesian Workers Service Agency (PJTKI) dispatching Sudaryanti could no longer be contacted. While Pendeta Surya Kumar asked Sudaryanti's family for money amounted to Rp 32 million as a shipping charges for the corpse.

The Director of the Ansor's LBH M. Akriman Hadi, S.H here over the weekend (12/4) said his Legal Aid Institute for Migrant Workers had met Sudaryanti's family to deal with this case. As reported Sudaryanti's corpse was buried in Medan on last Monday, 7 April 2008.

He said the similar cases had most of the time involved syndicates operating illegal migrant workers and added that PT Maha Indah Tenaga Tama (MITT) dispatching Sudaryanti was included in the list of official PJTKI, issued by the Indonesian Department of Manpower. The MITT has reportedly no longer operated in Rawa Badak North Jakarta.

Akriman said that with reference to the modus operandi, Sudaryanti was one of victims of "trafficking in person syndicate".

"Even is perhaps a human trafficking syndicate under the guise of migrant workers service for sexual exploitation purposes," Akriman said.

"We urge the government to totally examine the case of Sudaryanti's death," he said, adding that there was an allegedly forging in her passport in the name of Maesaroh Binti Daud.

To avoid the similar case, Yogyakarta's Ansor LBM, he added, had always called on the government to socialize ways of working abroad to society on such a scale. (nam)