Crackdown on expats continues

Crackdown on expats continues

JAKARTA: The City Population and Civil Registration Agency has
checked, as of Friday, the documents of as many as 1,175
foreigners working in four municipalities, discovering many
violations of entry permits.

Agency head Silviana Murni said that the Operation for
Foreigner Supervision and Order (OPPOA) was being carried out
from May to October in cooperation with the immigration office.

"We have a map showing the location of their workplaces. We
have warned companies to renew their foreign workers' out-of-date
documents and also met with companies recruiting foreign workers
prior to the start of the operation," Silviana told The Jakarta
Post.

Without stating the number of foreigners involved, she said
that those with the greatest number of problem documents were
Chinese nationals who had entered the city on tourist visas but
were working as teachers or traders.

The agency's data shows that its staff checked 439 foreigners
in Central Jakarta, 219 in North Jakarta, 210 in West Jakarta and
307 in East Jakarta. The data for South Jakarta was not yet
available because the crackdown was still under way.- JP