34 Chinese citizens deported

TANGERANG: Fifty-nine Chinese women, including a number of prostitutes, have been arrested in Jakarta and deported for abusing their tourist visas.

Directorate General of Immigration spokesman Ade E. Dahlan said 34 women were flown from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Hong Kong on Monday.

A further 25 Chinese women were sent home last Friday.

The deportees were caught during raids at the International Trade Center in Kuningan, South Jakarta, and in a hotel in West Jakarta last week, Dahlan told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.

They entered the country last month using tourist visas. Some of the women were found to be conducting business activities at the trade center while others were employed as sex workers at the hotel in West Jakarta, Dahlan said. --JP