inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The police have arrested two people who acted as recruiters for illegal migrant workers in the case of 60 illegal migrant workers (PMI) who boarded a ship and drowned in Malaysian waters some time ago. "The National Police have arrested two people suspected of being the perpetrators of the criminal act of protecting Indonesian Migrant Workers, who recruited the Illegal Migrant Workers. In which these Illegal Migrant Workers boarded a boat and had an accident," explained the Head of the Public Relations Division of the Police Public Relations Division, Pol. Grand Commissioner Ahmad Ramadhan, Tuesday (12/28/2021). One of the arrested suspects has the initials JI, a resident of the Baru Besar Village, Batam. From the investigation results, JI recruited as many as five illegal migrant workers. Unfortunately, four of the five workers died in a sinking shipwreck. Then, second, the US recruited four illegal migrant workers with the initials KAK, F, NIS and M. It is known that F and NIS were killed in the incident. "So, up to now, there are two suspects who have been detained by investigators and are still in the process of being investigated. The extent to which illegal recruits work in Indonesia who are illegally employed abroad," he explained further. The two perpetrators violated Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers. (my/bq/hy)