Inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The police, in collaboration with BP2MI, thwarted the illegal departure of nine prospective Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) to Japan. In this disclosure, the police arrested three people with the initials AKR (29), MR (30) and A (38). "Together with BP2MI, we thwarted the departure of nine PMI candidates abroad. It was suspected that this was not by the applicable procedures or laws and regulations. We have also arrested three suspects," said the Head of the South Jakarta Metro Sub-regional Police, Police Senior Superintendent H. Ade Ary Syam Indradi, quoted from the pmjnews page, Friday (25/8/23). He explained that the suspects MR and AKR were arrested at Kalibata City Apartments on Wednesday (19/7/23). Meanwhile, two other perpetrators were arrested in Sleman and Yogyakarta. In addition to securing the four suspects, some items of evidence were also confiscated. Starting from dozens of passports to plane tickets to Japan. "We secured airplane tickets to Japan and several passports in the victim's name. Then several visas, there were several cellphone units belonging to the suspect. This is evidence from the Kalibata Apartment. Then the evidence we got in Sleman included 17 other passports, there was one a bundle of original documents from a company in Indonesia, then there is SIUP, then there are sheets of other licensing documents," he explained. For their actions, the suspects will be subject to Article 2 of Law Number 21 of 2007 concerning the Eradication of Human Trafficking (TPPO) with a minimum sentence of 3 years in prison, and a maximum of 15 years. In addition, the three suspects were also charged with Article 81 of Law Number 18 of 2017 concerning the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers with a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of IDR 5 billion. (bg/hn/nm)