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