TEMPO.CO, Pontianak-Indonesia deported 27 Cambodians who have been held at the Immigration Detention Center in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, on Monday, June 6, 2016.
He said the 27 Cambodians were taken to Jakarta where they were received by Cambodian embassy officials and immediately flown home to their country in the afternoon.
There are also 196 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Palestine at the center, "but we do not know for sure when they will be deported to their home countries awaiting confirmation from their embassies," Suganda said.
The Head of Immigration Division of the West Kalimantan office for the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Malfa Asdi, said the 27 Cambodians who were deported were victims of human trafficking in their home country who were then employed to poach fish in the Indonesian waters.
"They are all boat crew while their skippers are currently still undergoing a judicial process," he added.
Malfa hoped embassies of the foreigners who are currently being held for violating the immigration law to immediately arrange their return so that they would not stay at the detention center in Pontianak too long since the place has been over capacity.
