Immigration set to deport Chinese prostitute

Immigration set to deport Chinese prostitute

JAKARTA (JP): The authorities are currently investigating how
a Chinese woman, who has been working as a prostitute in
Indonesia, managed to obtain a forged Indonesian passport and has
been traveling in and out of the country for the last three years
undetected.

The woman, identified as Huang Chuang Shia, is currently under
investigation and may face deportation, Hario Subayu, spokesman
of the Directorate General of Immigration, said yesterday.

Huang, 22, was captured recently at the Soekarno-Hatta airport
as she was about to board a plane for Batam island, Hario said,
adding that she had been working at a karaoke club in West
Jakarta, selling sex services for US$500-$1,000.

Despite having been in the country for three years, she does
not speak the Indonesian language, he added.

Preliminary investigation showed that Huang, who is originally
from Sanghai, first came to Indonesia in 1991 and immediately
obtained an Indonesian passport, using the assumed name of Seani
Yanti, with a home address in Purwokerto, Central Java.

She obtained the passport, issued by the immigration office at
Cilacap, Central Java, from a syndicate that also involved local
officials of Purwokerto.

She told the investigators that she had hoped to move to
Japan, which would not have been possible with her Chinese
passport. She also confessed that she had visited Hong Kong and
China several times using her Indonesian passport.

Hario said the immigration authorities last Saturday deported
another Chinese woman who was also believed to have been working
as a prostitute at the same karaoke club in West Jakarta.

Zhang, 26, has traveled in and out of Indonesia six times
under social-cultural visa. She was apprehended at a five-star
hotel in Central Jakarta, he said. (05)