East Timor deports RI migrant workers

Thu, 21 Oct 2004, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

KUPANG, East Nusa Tenggara: East Timor Immigration Office has
deported nine Indonesian migrant workers for immigration
violations, a senior government official disclosed on Wednesday.

Slamet Santoso, the head of Atambua immigration office in the
East Nusa Tenggara regency of Belu, said that the women migrant
workers were accused of working as hotel waitresses and sex
workers, thus violating their visas.

The action was also aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS
in the tiny country, which separated from Indonesian in 1999. --
JP

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