KL nabs 100 illegal RI immigrants

KL nabs 100 illegal RI immigrants

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA): Malaysian naval police have detained 100
Indonesians, including two children, who illegally entered the
country aboard a fishing trawler in the Straits of Malacca, a
news report said on Thursday.

Marine police spotted the trawler on Tuesday night near a
mangrove swamp off Port Klang, Malaysia, and gave chase before
the boat surrendered.

The Sun daily said it was the marine police's biggest arrest
of illegal Indonesian immigrants this year. The Indonesians, who
had no travel documents, will be held at detention camps before
they are deported home.

Police also arrested the Indonesian boatman for bringing in
the Indonesians, who were mostly from Aceh and Madura.

They had gathered in Dumai on Sumatra, which is separated from
peninsula Malaysia by the narrow Straits of Malacca.

The Indonesians said they paid the boatman between 50 ringgit
and 100 ringgit (US$13 and $26) for the trip.

Indonesians form the largest number of illegal immigrants in
Malaysia and mostly work as construction workers, plantation
hands, kitchen staff and housemaids.