Authorities have no funds to deport German students<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Six German students, who were scheduled to be
\ndeported on Tuesday for visa violations, are still in the city as
\nimmigration authorities do not have the funds to send them home.<\/p>\n
"We don't have the funds to deport them," Mohammad Indra,
\ndirector of the immigration enforcement section of the
\nDirectorate General of Immigration, said.<\/p>\n
This, however, does not mean that the immigration office has
\ncanceled its plan to deport the foreigners, he said<\/p>\n
The office announced on Monday that they would deport the six
\nGerman students who were arrested by police on Saturday for
\nallegedly doing research in a slum area with a local non-
\ngovernmental organization, the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC).<\/p>\n
Indra said it was unusual for deportations to be delayed due
\nto a lack of funds.<\/p>\n
The students hold return tickets that allow them to make a
\nstopover in Bali and Kalimantan, while they should be deported
\ndirectly to their country of origin.<\/p>\n
Indra said he did not know where the six students were
\nstaying.<\/p>\n
"They are under the guarantee of the German Embassy," he said.<\/p>\n
Indra added that the six foreign students were not
\nquarantined.<\/p>\n
"The quarantine center (in Kalideres, West Jakarta) caught
\nfire in April. Our office do not have the funds to renovate the
\ncenter, so the foreigners are not isolated," he told The Jakarta
\nPost.<\/p>\n
Indra added that the German Embassy had quaranteed that the
\nstudents would be available to the immigration authorities when
\nrequired.<\/p>\n
The students, Miriam Hinz, Norber Binternagel, Ina Maxime
\nChaefer, Niklas Gebert, Martin Geiger and Katrin Christine Bohle,
\nwere arrested last Saturday in a slum area of Karang Anyar,
\nCentral Jakarta while they were interviewing residents of the
\narea. They were released on the following day.<\/p>\n
They are among the 27 students from Bonn University who
\narrived in the city last Friday for a study tour.<\/p>\n
Indra, however, asked the case not be blown out of proportion
\nas it would only show the international community "how poor our
\ncountry is." (emf\/06)<\/p>",
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