Bandung, July 15 -- While investigating a child abduction case, the West Java Regional Police uncovered a child trafficking syndicate operating between Indonesia and Singapore and arrested 12 persons for trafficking babies for adoption.

"The suspects told us that they had taken as many as 24 infants," the police's director of general crime investigation, Grand Commissioner Surawan, informed in Bandung, West Java, on Tuesday.

According to Surawan, the West Java police busted the human trafficking ring while investigating a child abduction case in Bandung city.

He said that the traffickers took most of the infants from their biological parents in West Java. They were taken to Bandung, then Jakarta and West Kalimantan, from where the traf...