Immigration Office clarifies

With reference to an article published in The Jakarta Post on Aug. 31, 2002 under the title Govt considers revoking visa-free facility in coloumns 2 to 5 of the article page 1, allow us to state that the news story saying that fourteen countries would not be granted visa-free facilities, purportedly with the directorate general of immigration as the source of information, is not true and is groundless.

There has yet to be a new regulation about the changes in the visa-free facility for a brief visit (BVKS).

Therefore the provisions as stipulated in Presidential Decree No. 15/1983, which has been amended by Presidential Decree No. 39/1986 on the policy to develop tourism, and in Decree of the Ministry of Justice No. M.02-IZ.01.02/1993 on BVKS are still valid.

With this clarification, the public is expected not to nurture a mistaken perception of this matter.

ADE E. DACHLAN

Head of Public

Sub-Division

Directorate General

of Immigration

Jakarta

Relations

Note: Information regarding the 14 countries came from the international relation section of the directorate general of immigration.

--Editor