Captive labour: 22 Indonesian ‘slave workers’ rescued in Svay Rieng

In yet another case of foreigners being lured to work in Cambodia, only to end up in in captivity, authorities in Svay Rieng province recently rescued 22 Indonesian migrant workers who had been held against their will by two companies. Worse still, some of the 22 were sold by one syndicate to another with no humanity as the workers claimed to have been detained and forced to undertake online scam activities targeting other foreign nationals.

The workers’ travel documents were also confiscated by their respective employers while some of them reported they had been sold from their previous companies to their Bavet city-based ones.

However, their plight came to an end, thanks to the intervention of the Republic of Indonesia Embassy in Phnom Penh, which worked in tandem with Svay Rieng provincial administration and provincial police and managed to safely secure the release of all 22 from their captors on June 3. These workers were sent to Phnom Penh to receive further assistance from the Indonesian Embassy, such as consular services for those with missing passports.

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