MP Says Immigration Performance Has Been Good Over the Past Two Years

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Mafirion, a member of the House of Representatives’ Commission XIII, said the government’s immigration oversight had performed well over the past two years under President Prabowo Subianto and Vice-President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

He said improvements included passport services at strategic locations, including shopping centres, arrival and departure services, and the monitoring of foreign nationals.

“In my view, immigration oversight has worked well over the past two years, both in terms of services and supervision,” Mafirion said in a telephone interview in Jakarta on Monday.

He said records from the past two years showed that immigration authorities had taken various enforcement measures, including Administrative Immigration Actions (TAK), such as deportation, cancellation of residence permits and entry bans, as well as prosecutions through the courts.

A total of 4,593 immigration enforcement actions were recorded in 2024. In 2025, the figure rose sharply by 114 per cent to 9,843 actions against foreign nationals who had breached the rules. Overall, authorities carried out 16,006 TAK measures and handled 136 immigration crime cases.

“These actions need to be strengthened, not only when foreign nationals enter Indonesia, but also while they are here and carrying out activities in the country,” he said.

However, Mafirion said the key issue to review after these two years was not simply the number of foreign nationals entering the country, the number of monitoring operations or the number of people penalised. Rather, it was how effectively the state knew who was in Indonesia and what they were doing.

He said the government under Prabowo still needed to ensure effective coordination between the Directorate General of Immigration, the police, the Manpower Ministry, regional governments and other relevant agencies.

“Information on foreign nationals’ movements may be available, but we must not allow their activities on the ground to go unmonitored,” he said.

He said the effectiveness of oversight should be measured by the state’s ability to detect violations early, prevent the misuse of residence permits and enforce the rules consistently.

“As a member of Commission XIII of the House of Representatives, I will continue to push for measurable, data-driven reviews, accompanied by clear follow-up on the various problems in immigration oversight,” he said.