Fake passports for RI workers

Fake passports for RI workers

PEKANBARU, Riau: Thousands of Indonesians are working in
Malaysia with fake passports and documents, Antara reported on
Saturday.

Hamsuk Wijaya of the Indonesian embassy in Kuala Lumpur said
that police and immigration officials of both Indonesia and
Malaysia had found fake passports during a recent worker
registration drive.

"We found 100 fake passports, but we suspect that the real
number could be in the thousands," he said, adding that such
rampant document frauds could be the result of syndicates of
counterfeiters.

"Those passports were not only made by Indonesians, but also
Malaysian nationals," he said.

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians are currently working in
booming Malaysia, hoping to make a better life. A great number of
them work in plantations, construction projects and electronic
factories. (swe)