Five men charged with overstaying visas

Five men charged with overstaying visas

JAKARTA: Five men from Cameroon were arrested by the Central
Jakarta Police on Thursday night for allegedly overstaying their
visas.

The police arrested Tchouaga Simplice Roland, Malong Francis,
Fosso Andoce, Foussi Robert Roger and Njici Mido Cyrille Guy
Armand following a complaint about their behavior from a hotel on
Jl. Wahid Hasyim in Central Jakarta. The hotel complained the
foreigners were noisy and disturbing other guests.

The police sent them to the Immigration Directorate after
charging them with violating Law No. 9/1992 on immigration.

Intelligence unit chief Comr. Pramono said that the police had
handled nine other cases of people overstaying their visas.

"We occasionally arrest foreigners for staying longer than
what their visas stipulate. But after we send them to the
Immigration Directorate, the foreigners are just released. The
directorate says it doesn't have any money to extradite them," he
said. --JP