MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The recruitment company brought 300 Indonesians to Saudi Arabia and locked them up in a temporary shelter for migrants, according to the foreign ministry.
"We received reports two weeks ago that around 300 Indonesian citizens seeking to work in Saudi Arabia had been locked up. Our Indonesian Embassy has coordinated with police authorities there to investigate the matter," Iqbal, the ministry’s director for the protection of Indonesian nationals and entities abroad, said, as quoted by The Jakarta Post newspaper.
The Indonesian nationals might have fallen victims of an international human trafficking network, the official added.
The Indonesian Foreign Ministry is currently in contact with the Saudi Arabian police to investigate the matter, according to the official.
According to the United Nations, victims of human trafficking can be found in 106 countries as 21 million people around the world fall victims to forced labor and extreme exploitation in which criminal enterprises yield annual profits of $150 billion.
