Former patients of an Indonesian drug rehabilitation facility allege they were slaves who faced regular torture, but others claim it saved thousands of men from losing their lives to drugs and crime.
THE Indonesian anti-corruption investigators began hunting for the powerful local official after they caught two of his aides taking a US$40,000 (RM187,000) bribe.
Families in Indonesia thought they were sending their sons to a rehab facility run by a powerful local official. Those who stayed there say it was a brutal human slavery operation.
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MEDAN (AFP): Four Indonesians were each sentenced to 19 months in prison Wednesday (Nov 30) after being found guilty of torturing to death two people trafficked to work on an oil palm plantation that supplied global brands.