Deputy PM defends border officers

Wed, 13 Feb 2002, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

MALAYSIA: The deputy prime minister defended border officers on
Tuesday against allegations that they colluded in smuggling
illegal Indonesian workers into Malaysia.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that it was too early to decide,
however, whether the Malaysian government would issue a formal
protest against the accusations, or whether enough evidence
existed to investigate them.

Abdullah told reporters at a Chinese New Year celebration that
the government was "very unhappy to be confronted by
generalizations leading to press reports of such a nature".

The chief of Indonesia's provincial Riau assembly, Andi Anhar
Chalid, has been cited in Malaysian media as saying that
corruption was widespread at an entry point in southern Malaysia
popular with Indonesian migrants. --AP

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