Jumhur said that Malaysia needed to provide re-education for its police apparatuses because the number of those who committed barbarous acts in facing Indonesian migrant workers was increasing.
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia has asked Malaysia to give the heaviest punishment to three of its policemen who allegedly raped an Indonesian female worker on Friday, an Indonesian senior manpower official said.

Chief of the National Agency for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Workers Overseas (BNP2TKI), Moh Jumhur Hidayat said that his agency has coordinated with the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur to ask for heaviest punishment for the three Malaysian police.

An Indonesian migrant worker, SM (25), from Batang, Central Java, claimed she was raped by three Malaysian police at Perai police office, Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Penang on Friday, Nov. 9.

SM was netted in a sweeping and was taken to the police station because she was accused of having no proper document. She could only produce the photocopy of her passport.

"The police refused to accept it because it was only a photocopy and I was then taken to the police station," she was quoted by a local media as saying.

She was raped by three policemen before she was released.

Jumhur said that Malaysia needed to provide re-education for its police apparatuses because the number of those who committed barbarous acts in facing Indonesian migrant workers was increasing.

"With the repeated barbarous acts against Indonesian migrant workers both for workers who have or have no proper documents, it is important for Malaysia to re-educate its apparatuses," Jumhur said.

Cases of barbarous acts such as extortion, shooting and now brutal rapes have been often committed by Malaysian police, he said.

He hoped that the rapists, who were identified as Nik Sin Mat Lazin (33), Syahiran Ramli (21) and Remy Anak Dana (25), with be punished as heavily as possible.

"The Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia has asked Malaysia to take the right and fair legal steps which respect the feeling of the Indonesian people who are very concerned over the rape incident," Jumhur added.(*)

Editor: Heru Purwanto
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