Indonesia nabs nearly 500 human trafficking suspects in major crackdown

Indonesian government arrests almost 500 suspects, rescues 1,500 victims in an effort to dismantle illegal networks involved in international human trafficking

Between June 5 and 18, police arrested 494 suspects and five major traffickers were still "being hunted down", according to national police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan.

Indonesia is one of the largest migrant worker-exporting nations in Southeast Asia, with hundreds of thousands from the poorest parts of the archipelago nation leaving the country every year through unofficial routes in search of higher-paying work. National police spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan told AFP news agency on Tuesday that authorities had rescued 1,553 victims in the last two weeks before they were trafficked out of the country.

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