Indonesian migrant smugglers target Malaysia entry via Singapore, Thailand
A raid reveals a shift in tactics by syndicates that have long used Malaysia’s porous borders to move undocumented migrants
The raid, carried out before dawn on Saturday at two major transport terminals in Kuala Lumpur, led to the arrest of 11 Indonesians, including a suspected transporter, and the seizure of a Mazda CX-5 believed to have been used to move migrants to their next stop.
“Officers tracked the arrival of a group of Indonesian nationals travelling to the Klang Valley from Kelantan via express buses,” Zakaria said, according to the department’s statement.
At Terminal Bersepadu Gombak, on the northern fringe of Kuala Lumpur, officers detained two Indonesian men and two women, along with an Indonesian man believed to have acted as a transporter handling their movement and logistics around the capital.
Meanwhile, across the city at Terminal Bersepadu Selatan, another three Indonesian men and three women believed to be linked to the same syndicate were detained.