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10 refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan arrested in Batam for working as gigolos
Ten male refugees, nine from Afghanistan and one from Pakistan, have been arrested on Batam Island for allegedly working as prostitutes, according to Indonesian immigration officials. Also arrested was an Indonesian citizen, identified by his initials BS, who allegedly acted as the men’s pimp. The director general of Immigration at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Ronny Franky Sompie, said the eleven men had been arrested after they had received reports about them from the public. Supposedly the men were charging up to Rp 20 million ($1,500) for their services. According to Ronny, the reports said the men looked for female Indonesian customers at a fitness center. "There, communication and interaction occurred and there were cases related to sex," Ronny said on Wednesday as quoted by Tempo. Batam Immigration Office Chief Agus Wijaya said that the men’s illicit activities were also revealed through ads posted onto social media. He said officers investigated the ads over the last three weeks before apprehending the the ten gigolos and their pimp. The arrests took place from mid-August to early September. Immigration officials said that some of the men had already registered with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and were awaiting for placements in other countries. The ten refugees are currently in holding at the Batam Immigration detention center for further questioning, while BS is being questioned by the local police. There are hundreds of refugees in Indonesia who fled persecution and war in their own countries and ended up in legal limbo after being unable to continue their journeys, unable to legally work or resettle until they have been given a placement in another country by the UNHCR. |
Indonesia Muslim man born on Dec. 25 named Merry Christmas
A 54-year-old man living in Malang regency, East Java, was named Slamet Hari Natal, meaning Merry Christmas, by his parents because he was born on Dec. 25, 1962. “Yes, that’s my name,” he said as quoted by tribunnews.com on Tuesday. He showed his ID card and family card, which said his name was “Slamet Hari Natal”. “It was supposed to be Selamat Hari Natal, but because we are Javanese, it became Slamet,” he said. He said his mother gave birth to him in the house of the midwife, named Akas Kiyo, in Tumpang, Malang. The midwife was Christian and suggested his parents to name him Selamat Hari Natal, the Indonesian Christmas greeting. His parents, although Muslims, decided to accept the suggestion but named him Slamet instead. Slamet is a common Javanese name and loosely translates to "safe". “They said they didn’t want to think hard for the name, and they had that name ready, so they accepted the suggestion,” he said. He has one sister named Mujiati. Although his name is Slamet Hari Natal and he is a Muslim, he said he never received any criticism from his neighbors. “No, never. We practice tolerance here,” he said. |
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An Indonesian tourist died on Wednesday after falling from a cliff at Uluwatu, Bali. It’s alleged that the tourist, hailing from Solo, Java, had been taking a selfie at the edge of the cliff before he fell. Kwan Anto Randy Saputro, 47, had come with his family to visit the famous Balinese Uluwatu Temple on Wednesday afternoon. It’s alleged that Saputro leaned out to take a selfie and slipped and fell over the barrier on the cliff top, according to a Tribun Bali report. Basarnas (Search and Rescue) was called to the scene to evacuate Saputro—who turned out not to have survived the fall. It took Basarnas about an hour and a half to two hours to evacuate the body because of their challenging position, along with a windy conditions and a high tide. A video taken by Basarnas and released to Tribun Bali shows the full-on evacuation effort put on by the search and rescue team. “The incident reported concerns a domestic tourist from Surakarta (Solo). We directly dispatched a rescue team with a ‘high angle’ rescue technique to rescue and evacuate the victim,” head of Basarnas Bali, Did Hamzar, told Tribun Bali. “The victim died falling down from a cliff at Uluwatu with a height of approximately 100 to 120 meters,” Hamzar added. Saputro’s body was immediately taken to Sanglah Hospital after being evacuated, reports said. |
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10 prostitutes from China, Vietnam apprehended in Batam
Immigration officials have arrested 10 young women from China and Vietnam suspected to have operated as sex workers in Batam, Riau Islands. Batam Immigration Office chief Teguh Prayitno said the arrests were conducted by immigration officers in two separate raids on a boarding house and a club in a business area in Nagoya, Batam, on Wednesday. “They entered Batam via Jakarta. They have been operating in Batam for several weeks, accepting orders for sexual services by phone,” said Teguh in a press conference on Thursday. Eight out of the 10 foreign citizens arrested are from Vietnam while the two others came from China. They are aged between 20 and 30 years. “They claimed they were tourists but they could not show the tourist accommodations where they were staying. They in fact lived in a boarding house,” said Teguh. Many young women from various countries are working illegally as sex workers in Batam, the immigration office stated. Teguh said the arrests were the office’s response over reports filed by several parties on the growing number of foreign sex workers in Batam. “There are still many foreign sex workers operating here. We are now collecting accurate information to be able to arrest them." The immigration office will charge the 10 foreigners over alleged stay permit violations as stipulated by Law No.6/2011 on immigration. “They will all be deported back to their countries,” said Teguh. During Wednesday's operation, the immigration officials also arrested Khoo Wei Chyi, 42, a Singaporean citizen, over an alleged stay permit violation. “The Singaporean citizen is a convicted criminal in his country. We will deport him also,” said Teguh. |
Indonesia to set up a task force to monitor the movement of foreigners
The government is set to revamp its oversight system on foreigners amid growing concern of foreigners exploiting their visas to work in the country illegally. Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto said on Friday that the government would set up a task force to monitor the movement of foreigners entering the country’s borders. “The monitoring [under the task force] will ensure foreigners who enter and move across Indonesia do not have a hidden agenda, such as working illegally, or even committing terror acts and being involved in the illegal drug trade,” Wiranto told reporters following a meeting with relevant ministers at his office. The task force would function to fill the gap in the current oversight system, which focused on monitoring foreigners when they entered Indonesian borders, yet gradually lost control when they moved to other areas, Wiranto added. The minister said the task force would empower local administrations, which already have their own monitoring system, to step up oversight of foreigners living in the regions. National Police deputy chief Comr. Gen. Syafruddin confirmed the function of the task force was similar to the foreigner oversight (POA) team under the auspices of the National Police. The team was set up under the Soeharto regime but disbanded by the 2011 Immigration Law, which curtails the police’s authority to oversee foreigners. Syafruddin said the police would now be involved in monitoring foreigners, but they would be under the coordination of the chief security office. The decision to establish such a task force comes following a crackdown on foreigners violating visas in Indonesia in recent months. Data from the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Directorate General of Immigration revealed that in 2016, 7,787 foreigners, 1,837 of whom were Chinese, were punished for violating immigration regulations. The crackdown has sparked a rumor that 10 million Chinese people have been working illegally in the country. President Joko ‘‘Jokowi’’ Widodo has repeatedly rebuffed the rumor, which government officials said was aimed at stoking anti-Chinese sentiment in the country and to discredit the current administration. According to Manpower Ministry data, the total number of foreign workers officially employed in Indonesia as of November 2016 stands at 74,183 people, 21,271 of whom are Chinese. Manpower Minister M. Hanif Dhakiri asserted that the number of illegal foreign workers in the country was not that significant compared to the official ones, saying that from the crackdown last year, the ministry and relevant authorities had arrested at least 800 foreigners working illegally. He said his ministry would also intensify its oversight system in accordance to the existing scheme, in which inspections of companies employing foreign workers were carried out both periodically and in response to reports of suspicious activities involving foreigners. “We will continuously improve our monitoring, but the public should also stop fussing over the matter. It’s true that there are problems [related to illegal foreign workers], but don’t create a hyperbolic issue over that,” Hanif said. Meanwhile, Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly said the significant number of foreign workers in Indonesia, including Chinese, corresponded to the fact that foreign investors in the country’s industrial sector wanted their own citizens to also work on the field, as they had special specifications. “Gradually, there will be location training [by foreigners] so that [Indonesian workers] can take over the factory because technology transfer is required,” Yasonna said, adding that a regulation on the matter would be further strengthened under the Industry Ministry domain. Yasonna further rebuffed suggestions that President Jokowi’s signature free-visa policy, which initially aimed to attract 20 million foreign tourists annually by 2019, had contributed to the rising number of illegal foreign workers in the country — those who first entered with tourists visa. However, Yasonna’s office is also set to review the free-visa policy amid concerns that among the 174 countries enjoying Indonesia’s visa waiver, there were several small countries that had not contributed to the increasing number of visitors to Indonesia. Wiranto concurred with Yasonna, saying that an evaluation of the list of countries enjoying the free-visa policy was important to ensure the policy had not opened the door for foreigners to work illegally in the country. |
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