REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG -- The West Java provincial police have taken into custody 11 Moroccan women, believed to be the victims of human trafficking, and a pimp in Puncak Cisarua, Bogor, a police spokesman stated.

"The 12 citizens of Morocco, who have been taken into custody, were initially intended to work as sex workers," West Java police's public relations officer Senior Commissioner Sulistyo Pudjo Hartono remarked on Thursday.

According to Hartono, the Moroccan citizens were taken into custody on December 2, 2015.

The police have also arrested two Indonesian nationals suspected of being liaisons.

The pimp, called Asma, placed an order for the Moroccan women and subsequently transferred the money in accordance with the agreed price.

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"After remitting the money to Morocco, the 11 women were sent to Indonesia via the Soekarno-Hatta Airport," the police revealed.

The Moroccan women were then accommodated in several villas in Puncak, Bogor, to operate as commercial sex workers in several cafes.

As part of the evidence in the case, the police had secured the passports and mobile phones of the respective Moroccan citizens.

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