269 foreigners denied entrance

269 foreigners denied entrance

JAKARTA: A total of 269 foreigners were not allowed into the
country between January and August due to various immigration
violations, an official said on Tuesday.

The supervision director at the Directorate General of
Immigration, Zaiman Nurmatias, also said another 103 foreigners
were arrested over this period for various criminal offenses.

The expatriates were barred from entering the country at
Sumatra's Dumai, Tanjung Balai and Asahan seaports and Polonia
airport, Kupang seaport in East Nusa Tenggara, Ngurah Rai airport
in Bali, Tanjung Perak seaport in Surabaya and Soekarno-Hatta
airport here, he said.

"Most of them were found in possession of bogus visas which
they claimed were issued by Indonesian embassies in Kuala Lumpur,
Bangkok and Beijing," Zaiman said.

He added that the majority of the foreigners came from China.
(edt)