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The four women and seven men were taken into custody while they were waiting
to board a Batavia Air flight to Batam.
<p>Agus, one of the men, said that he had been offered a job at an oil palm plantation
in Malaysia upon paying a man identified as SL Rp 700,000.</p>
<p>Agus said he had only met the other members of the group at the airport.</p>
<p>Airport police head Sr. Comr. Guntur Setyanto said that the workers had been
detained since they were not accompanied by representatives from a licensed
recruitment company.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the workers failed to show a permit from Indonesia’s Manpower
Ministry or a work visa from the Malaysian Embassy.</p>
<p>"They were going to get to Batam and someone would have picked them up
to get them to Malaysia," Guntur said as quoted by news portal Tempointeraktif.</p>
<p>The police are currently searching for SL and his accomplice. — JP
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