Yemeni deported for abusing immigration permit
Yemeni deported for abusing immigration permit
JAKARTA (JP): The immigration department deported a Yemeni man
Wednesday for abusing his immigration permit.
The head of the city immigration office, M. Iman Santoso, said
Yahya bin Ali Safwani, 30, left Soekarno-Hatta International
Airport for Sanaa, Yemen, via Abu Dhabi, on a Gulf Air plane at
3:10 p.m. Wednesday.
"Yahya carried a passport issued in Sanaa and entered
Indonesia on April 23, 1993, with a tourist visa from the
Indonesian embassy in Amman," he said.
Iman said Yahya married an Indonesian woman, who lived in
Pancoran, South Jakarta, on Aug. 12, 1995.
Yahya illegally acquired a family registration card and an
identification card from the Cempaka Baru subdistrict office in
Central Jakarta.
The immigration department reported Yahya to police and in
1995 the Central Jakarta District Court sentenced Yahya to four
months jail for illegally acquiring the identification cards.
Yahya claimed he was an Indonesian born in Galur area, Central
Jakarta on August 15, 1965, he said.
Iman said the East Jakarta immigration sent Yahya to its
quarantine center after he completed his sentence in Cipinang
prison.
Yahya sued the immigration department in the Jakarta State
Administrative Court which ordered the office to postpone the
quarantine and deportation.
But the Jakarta State Administrative High Court overruled the
decision on appeal.
Meanwhile, a Bangladeshi man who was arrested on May 1 in
Merauke, Irian Jaya, was sent to the Directorate General of
Immigration on Wednesday.
The director for control and law enforcement on immigration
affairs, Zaiman Nurmatias, said Muhammad Iqbal was arrested for
trying to go to Australia via Merauke. His return ticket to
Bangladesh had expired and he did not have a visa for Australia.
"Iqbal who carried a Bangladesh passport was believed to be
trying to go to Australia to seek a better life. He tried to hire
a speed boat," Zaiman said.
At least 55 foreigners, mostly from Pakistan, have been
arrested for abusing their immigration permits this year. The
immigration department has deported 119 foreigners this year.
(jun)