Immigration officials meet at palace

JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened on Monday a two-day meeting of immigration officials at the State Palace.

The meeting was attended by 240 officials from across the country and abroad.

Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin said that the participants would discuss standardizing services at the office in a bid to improve its performance.

The President said that the government considered the office played an important and strategic and asked the officials to improve its performance.

He also told them to set up an electronic immigration system to reduce direct contact between customers and officials in a bid to prevent possible corruption. -- JP