Singaporean arrested

Singaporean arrested

JAKARTA (JP): A Singaporean was arrested by an Immigration Officer in Bogor, 30 kilometers to the south of here, on Monday after he allegedly tried to gain an Indonesian passport using a fake Indonesian citizenship card.

The immigration officer reportedly ascertained that the Singaporean, identified as Abd. R bin M.Y., had obtained the counterfeit citizenship card and a phony family record card from a civil servant in Sukabumi, West Java.

The Suara Pembaruan daily reported that Abd. is the holder of a Singaporean passport, due to expire on March 2, 2004. The newspaper reported that he came to Indonesia on Dec. 1, entering the country at Batam island, and later went to Sukabumi in West Java where he married a local woman on Dec. 19 last year.

Abd told the immigration officer that he had been forced to stay in Sukabumi because he was running out of money with which to go back to Singapore. (mas)