Foreigners held over RI passports

Foreigners held over RI passports

TANGERANG (JP): Tangerang Police arrested a Briton and two
other unidentified foreigners at Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport late on Sunday for holding Indonesian passports.

Police chief of detectives Insp. Chandra Sukma Kumara said the
Briton, Siddal John Arthur, was accompanying the other two
foreigners, who had Indonesian names and addresses in their
passport. The two foreigners were to be employed in the United
States.

Chandra said the two foreigners, who had Korean and Taiwanese
accents, were identified by their passport as Taufik Teguh, 25, a
resident of Jl. Margahayu Raya, Margacinta district, Bandung,
West Java and Alif Sumantri, 48, a resident of Jl. Warung,
Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

"Taufik, holding passport No. F784469, and Alif, holding
passport No. G669698, were about to leave for the States at 11
p.m. along with Mr. Siddal. But when an immigration officer
checked their passports, both Taufik and Alif could not speak
Indonesian nor English," he said.

He added that the officers handed the three men over to
police. They were transferred to the city police headquarters on
Monday morning for further questioning. (41)