Foreigners nabbed for breaching laws<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Immigration officers in greater Jakarta area
\ncaptured at least 178 foreigners for violation of Law No. 9\/1992
\non Immigration and involvement in drug cases, an official said on
\nThursday.<\/p>\n
\"We nabbed the foreigners during a routine operation in
\nJanuary,\" Director General of Immigration M. Mudakir said in a
\nstatement, copies of which were made available to the press on
\nThursday.<\/p>\n
The Tangerang immigration office caught two foreigners while
\nthe Soekarno-Hatta Airport office netted 130 foreigners, he said.
\nIn Bogor, he added, the office caught three foreigners.<\/p>\n
\"We also caught 30 foreigners in Central Jakarta, three in
\nSouth Jakarta, and one in East Jakarta,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Mudakir said the operations, held in Palmerah subdistrict,
\nWest Jakarta, concentrated on apprehending Africans. Other
\noperations in Pulogadung, Cibubur, Jatinegara in East Jakarta,
\nJl. Jaksa, Kemayoran area, and Pasar Baru area in Central
\nJakarta, in Bekasi, east of Jakarta, in Tangerang, west of
\nJakarta and in Bogor, south of Jakarta, targeted other
\nnationalities.<\/p>\n
He said that the captured foreigners included American,
\nAngolan, Australian, British, Chinese, Egyptian, Filipino,
\nIndian, Japanese, Jordanian, Malaysian, and Malian.<\/p>\n
\"We also detained Nigerian, Pakistani, Saudi Arabian,
\nSingaporean, South Korean, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Swiss national,
\nTaiwanese, Tanzanian, and Togolese,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"The violations included fake visas, overstaying, fictitious
\nsponsors, stay permit violations, drug possession, and incomplete
\ntravel documents,\" he added.<\/p>\n
Supervision of foreigners entering the country has been
\nintensified following numerous cases of foreigners' involved in
\ndrug cases and violations of the immigration laws, he said.<\/p>\n
He denied the allegations that the immigration directorate-
\ngeneral had been inactive in monitoring incoming foreigners.<\/p>\n
\"There were 596 foreigners with various nationalities caught
\nand deported for breaching the immigration laws in 1999,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
There were also 193 foreigners quarantined in Kalideres, West
\nJakarta as of last December, he added, saying there were at least
\n230 foreigners quarantined nationwide.<\/p>\n
Mudakir also revealed that the Spanish government had given a
\nsoft loan of US$ 35 million to finance the establishment of
\ndigitally-transmitted Immigration Management and Information
\nSystem (SIMKIM).<\/p>\n
\"The new system will enable us to have on-line network with
\nall immigration offices nationwide and with all Indonesian
\nembassies,\" he said, adding that the deal was signed last
\nDecember.<\/p>\n
\"Currently, we still use manual data processing which delays
\nretrieval of data on incoming foreigners,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He said that his office had established cooperation with other
\ngovernment institutions to monitor visiting foreigners.<\/p>\n
\"The team includes the Ministries of Manpower and Tourism,
\nregional administrations, the police, the attorney general's
\noffice, and immigration,\" he said, while citing that immigration
\nacted as the coordinator while each member enforces its own
\njurisdiction.<\/p>\n
Mudakir called on city residents to report to the immigration
\noffices if they suspected foreigners violating immigration
\nregulations in their respective neighborhood. (05)<\/p>",
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