Police Track Down Indians Escaping Covid-19 Quarantine on Arrival
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Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
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Petir Garda Bhwana
Kamis, 29 April 2021 06:09 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian police found it rather difficult to track down Indian nationals who managed to slip through Covid-19 quarantine in Soekarno-Hatta Airport as many have fled to major cities the foreign nationals had initially planned to stay.
Head of the Soekarno-Hatta Airport aviation security crime unit Commissioner Akhmad Alexander Yurikho to Antara News said “The individuals were not at the hotels they should be at.”
He elaborated that most of the Indians breaching quarantine had traveled to other cities and managed to meet the Indian communities in Indonesia to be accommodated.
“Over there they are accommodated by Indian communities, companies they work for, and relatives who had already stayed in Indonesia,” he said.
The police commissioner said one case saw an Indian national, Cherelovapil Mukri Muhammad Jabir, who paid millions of rupiah to avoid Indonesia’s mandatory Covid-19 quarantine for foreigners. Police found him casually eating together with other Indians in Batam, Riau Islands.
Another example saw Senthil Ranganathan apprehended in Bandung in West Java being with the local Indian community. Ranganathan managed to flee quarantine due to assistance from a coworker in a company they work for.
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JONIANSYAH HARDJONO (CONTRIBUTOR)
