Immigration detains my husband

Immigration detains my husband

My husband has been detained at the detention facility of
immigration office in Kalideres, West Jakarta, since June 15,
1998, and since Oct. 20, 1999, has been kept in a cell at the
same facility. So far two officers from the immigration office in
Jl. Rasuna Said have come twice to the facility (Nov. 3, 1999,
and Nov. 22, 1999,) and met with my husband. They stated that my
husband was not guilty of overstaying in the country. They looked
into my husband's case upon his request since it hadn't yet been
researched by immigration officers from Jl. Rasuna Said.

My husband was detained by immigration officers in Yogyakarta
on June 12, 1998. He was then sent to Jakarta and put into the
detention facility with no questions asked. My concern is why my
husband is still being detained in a cell at the detention
facility when he is has not overstayed, and why his legal status
will not be restated with seven weeks on his visa (as the two
Immigration officers have already said to him).

On Nov. 22, 1999, I was asked to come to the immigration
office on Jl. Rasuna Said to meet one of the officers who is in
charge of the "Wasdakim" section. To my surprise, he wanted to
arrange my husband's status with some conditions, something I
think is unlawful for my husband has been declared as not
overstaying. I refused those conditions. What my husband has
requested is to be released from the cell and to be given his
legal status back, and he has requested in writing to the
government and immigration officials to state clearly that he
will not be blacklisted, deported and that he will no longer be
harassed, now or in the future.

YOGALO NOVI KRISNAWATI

Depok, West Java