The company is surrounded by armed men and sniffing dogs, according to Slamet, and I just received 4 million rupees per month and had to operate more than 12 hours a day.  ,
He was given the task of managing transactions from those who engaged in online gambling in Indonesia as part of his” job.”  ,
” I know the bank’s banks login and pin number. I paid my bank accounts about 30 million dirhams for the money they gave me. If I had never done this, I wouldn’t be able to get home”, Slamet told CNA, adding that he is still being harassed by his previous employer in Cambodia.  ,
Indonesia’s official in Phnom Penh handles about 15 to 30 information a day of its residents seeking assistance, according to Director of Indonesian Citizen Protection Judha Nugraha next month.  ,
The Indonesian Citizen Protection is an organization within Indonesia’s overseas department.
Judha claimed that the Indonesian Embassy had successfully managed more than 2, 946 cases involving the security of Indian people, with more than 76 % of those cases being related to online scams between January and November 2024.  ,
According to researchers, Indonesians who were survivors of human trafficking through online methods have become more popular since the COVID-19 crisis, when many were eager for jobs and were prone to scams.  ,
Additionally, observing people noticed a change in the way people smuggling circumstances have changed. The offenders now have an agenda for young people who have earned a degree. They are also no longer sent to Middle East nations, but to another Southeast Asian nations.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TORTURE ,
His company demanded a 50 million ringgit good for his return when Slamet expressed his frustration and asked to be sent up to Indonesia, leaving him with no choice but to continue working there.  ,
Slamet continued, noting that he worked in apartments rented by various playing and online fraud companies that” no contractual contracts” existed.
Up to 80 % of those who work alongside him, including his previous boss, who is from North Sumatra, are Indian people, according to Slamet.  ,
Slamet may just leave the office to eat or take a smoke break because she worked and slept in. Even that was controlled by the troops, he claimed.
” If I wasn’t mentally strong at the time, I could have committed suicide” . ,
The Indonesian ambassador in Phnom Penh responded to CNA’s inquiries by saying that the majority of Indonesians who had experienced difficulties in Cambodia and had returned home were generally in good physical and mental health.
However, the ambassador even noted that several of them were in “poor physical and psychological state”.
The Migrant Care advocacy organization in Jakarta reported on numerous studies of misuse of Indonesian workers in Cambodia.  ,
Some were handcuffed, electrocuted, and beaten, and the causes of this abuse, among others, varied, including failing to meet goals or being punished for filing problems, according to Arina Widda Faradis, who works in the organization’s legal help section, told CNA.  ,
Slamet confirmed this by stating that Cambodian online gambling establishments would impose electrical weapons or firearms on employees who were found to be incompetent at work.  ,
My friend again had his career electrocuted because he couldn’t do it in another week of training, and he was threatened with electrocution if he didn’t do it in another month, he said.
” And if within a month he remains incompetent, he was threatened ( with being moved ) to Myanmar. Who knows what his fate may remain while he is in Myanmar?
However, alleged victims of human smuggling have also reported on social media about a number of instances.  ,  ,