Eight foreigners questioned

Eight foreigners questioned

JAKARTA (JP): Police questioned eight foreigners for allegedly working illegally at a tire factory owned by PT Good Year in Bogor.

Bogor Regional Police chief Col. Syahroedin Zainal Pagaralam said over the weekend that the eight are part of twelve foreigners who are believed to have misused their visas.

"The other four left the country before police officers came to the factory to investigate the case," he said.

Zainal was quoted by the Republika daily as saying that the foreigners' original purpose in Indonesia was not work because they held only business visas.

In reality, the workers from the United States, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand were working on the expansion of the factory, he said.

Zainal said that according to Immigration Regulation No. 9/1992, any foreigner found guilty of violating immigration rules faces one-year imprisonment or a fine of Rp 5 million (US$2,272). (29)