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Datuk Aidi Ismail
KUCHING (December 20): Police will take action against a woman for allegedly helping the four Indonesian women who tested positive for Covid-19 to flee the country, said Sarawak Police Commissioner Datuk Aidi Ismail.
Aidi said police will begin their investigations once the woman is released from quarantine.
The woman is also alleged to be a self-employed worker who helped foreign workers find employment in the state.
“We can also confirm that the four Indonesian women were detained yesterday by the Indonesian National Armed Forces near Biawak (Aruk, Indonesia),” Aidi said when contacted today.
He also said that the four women were taken to a hospital in Indonesia for medical treatment.
The four women fled the state on December 17 by taking a bus from Sibu to Serian around 1 a.m.
From there they are believed to have walked to Entikong, Kalimantan, using a ‘jalan tikus’ (illegal border roads).
However, it is unclear how the four women ended up in Aruk, Indonesia.
All four women are believed to have fled after learning that their Covid-19 test came back positive.
The woman who will be called in for the investigation was the one who took the four women to a private clinic in Sibu to undergo a swab test for work purposes.
Meanwhile, the State Disaster Management Committee is also asking passengers on the Sungai Merah bus with registration number QSX 6722 to come forward for a swab test.
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