JAKARTA - Indonesia says about 7,900 links to overseas-job advertisements flagged through a government cyber patrol were taken down from Jan. 1 through Aug. 31.

The Ministry for the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers said it worked with the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, known as Komdigi, on the removals. An Antara report citing Deputy Minister Christina Aryani’s written statement said the patrol generated 10,504 job-ad reports during the period.

The takedown figures come alongside other evidence of problems in overseas recruitment and placement. IDN Times, citing ministry material, reported 2,208 migrant-worker complaints from several countries from Jan. 1 through Aug. 29.

The material also said 13 migrant-worker placement companies had received administrative sanctions and three companies had their placement licences revoked.

The figures add scale to concerns over online job scams targeting Indonesian migrant workers. In February, the Indonesian National Police said it assessed 249 repatriated Indonesians after they returned from Cambodia and Myanmar.

Police said the group had been lured by fraudulent job advertisements on Facebook and Telegram. It said victims were trafficked via Singapore and Thailand before being forced to work 14 to 18 hours a day in heavily guarded online-scam centers, with many unpaid and prohibited from leaving the compounds.

At a Sept. 2 briefing, Christina described the type of content being monitored.

“We have a Cyber Patrol unit that monitors fictitious job advertisements, which are usually packaged to look attractive,” Antara quoted her as saying.

She said links assessed as potentially tied to fictitious vacancies are forwarded to Komdigi for follow-up.

Requests for repatriation assistance from Indonesians who had left online-scam networks in Cambodia have also risen sharply.

The Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh said 12,207 Indonesians reported to the embassy and sought help returning home between Jan. 1 and July 9 after leaving such networks. Of those, 5,966 had been repatriated with embassy assistance by that date.

An earlier embassy count showed 12,019 people sought repatriation assistance in the first six months of 2026, already more than double the 5,088 recorded during all of 2025.