Aliens deported for abusing work permits
JAKARTA (JP): Immigration authorities have deported two Australians and three Germans for allegedly abusing their work permits.
Spokesman for the Directorate General of Immigration Hario Subayu identified the two Australians yesterday as Brendan Cox and Christopher Robert Tape. The three Germans deported were Karl Ludwig Dippel, Hoffman Christian Johannes and Carsten August Dieter Czapik.
The deportees were all senior executives of ABB Jasa Indonesia, the Indonesian subsidiary of Swiss-based firm Asea Brown Bovery (ABB).
"We revoked their residence permits and put their names on the black list," Subayu said. He added that the aliens had been deported on request from the Ministry of Manpower.
He said Cox, Tape, Dippel and Johannes were deported last Friday, while Czapik was deported last Thursday.
Subayu said that Dippel, Czapik, Tape, and Cox were guilty of holding positions other than those stipulated in their work permits.
He said Dippel was simultaneously a director, vice president, and country controller of ABB Jasa Indonesia. Czapik had been responsible for the company's administrative affairs as well as performing duties in his formal position as the company's project engineering manager.
Subayu said Cox had been a finance controller, instead of a technical consultant, as stipulated in his work permit. Tape had been the company's country manager, instead of its president as formally registered, Subayu added.
Johannes was said to have falsified data in his visa application. "Johannes used the name of another person, Achim Sudmeier, who had been deported earlier," Subayu said.
Jahannes had violated the Indonesian criminal code, Subayu said, and was subject to a prison sentence of up to six years.
According to local media reports, the deportation was connected with a dispute between ABB and its Indonesian partner Cipta Cakra Murdaya, a group of companies belonging to Murdaya Poo and his wife Siti Hartati Murdaya.
The Warta Ekonomi business weekly reported that the dispute started when ABB Jasa Indonesia planned to establish an electrical equipment plant in Indonesia, PT ABB Transmission and Distribution.
Negotiations between ABB Jasa Indonesia and the Cipta Cakra Murdaya floundered because ABB Jasa Indonesia wanted full ownership of the US$57 million transmission and distribution company, while Cipta Cakra Murdaya wanted to own 40 percent of the company, the report said.
The Directorate General of Immigration's Director of Supervision and Operations Rahardi Suroprawiro said his office monitored the activities of foreign workers closely.
It was not true that the immigration office took the action because of pressure from a third party, he said, as quoted by Antara.
"It was the immigration office which gave the information to the manpower ministry," he added.
He said that the case should serve as warning to foreign workers not to be tempted to violate their work permits.
"If there are changes in their positions, they should have their permits revised," he said. (imn)