False information leads to arrest

False information leads to arrest

JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta immigration officers have arrested
a Chinese citizen for applying for an Indonesian passport using
fake documents, an official said on Wednesday.

Hamsuk S. Wijaya, coordinator of Jakarta immigration affairs,
announced that the man, identified as Lim Chen Sun, 33, was
arrested on Friday.

In the passport application, Lim, who hails from Fujian,
China, claimed to be an Indonesian citizen named Hendra Wijaya,
Hamsuk said.

Lim was arrested after immigration officers became
increasingly suspicious due to conflicting information he gave
during an interview and because he could not speak Bahasa
Indonesia fluently, he said.

He said that during the interview Lim claimed to live on Jl.
H. Tholib in Cipete district, South Jakarta. "But later Lim said
he moved from one place to another like Surabaya, Semarang,
Jakarta and Puncak (near Bogor)," Hamsuk said.

When the officers managed to get him to reveal his real
identity, Lim said he was a Chinese citizen and had come to
Indonesia in 1994, Hamsuk said.

Lim previously worked at securities firm PT Rashid Hussain at
the Jakarta Stock Exchange building as a research analyst for two
years. He changed his named to Hendra Wijaya in 1995, Hamsuk
said. He last lived at the Wesling Condominium on Jl. Kedoya
Garden in West Jakarta. (hhr)