Woman questioned for harboring foreigners

JAKARTA (JP): The Directorate General of Immigration is questioning a woman for allegedly accommodating foreigners who entered the country without legal documents.

The acting spokesman for the Immigration Directorate General, Mursanudin A. Ghani, said in a release distributed to The Jakarta Post that the arrest of Mrs. Djaenab Rusmijati Everaers, alias Tati, was made following the arrest of a Moroccan man, Mohamed Saidi, in her home on Jl. Gurame, Pasar Minggu in South Jakarta on Sept. 10. The Moroccan was arrested for lacking documents.

The release did not say how many foreigners had been received by the woman in her home.

The woman holds a Dutch passport and has an entrance permit (KIM) issued by the South Jakarta Immigration office. The suspect, however, still has an Indonesian ID issued by the Pasar Minggu district office and a family card signed by the Pasar Minggu subdistrict head, N. Mulyana.

According to Mursanudin, the Dutch embassy has confirmed that Tati is a Dutch citizen.

The woman was the wife of a Dutch man, Everaers Mathias Henricus Yozef, who died in 1990. She then married Mohamed Saidi, the Moroccan who was arrested on Sept. 10. Muhamed Saidi and Tati have a daughter named Rosita Dewi Margareta.

The woman was also blamed for not reporting her move from her old residence in Permata Hijau, Blok C 1/4 to Jl. Gurame in South Jakarta.

Quoting the director of the supervision and action office at the Immigration Directorate General, Mursanudin said those accommodating foreigners must report to police or an immigration office within 24 hours or they will receive a maximum punishment of one year in prison or a Rp 5,000,000 fine. (sur)