Aliens deported for abusing work permits

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)