Banjarmasin Immigration Office Deports Ten Chinese Workers
31 January 2017 17:56 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Banjarmasin - The Banjarmasin Immigration office in South Kalimantan Office deported 10 Chinese migrant workers for not having passports when being inspected on Saturday, January 28, 2017. The illegal workers were sent to Jakarta on Tuesday, January 31, 2017.
A day after the transit in Jakarta, the Immigration office will send the illegal workers back to China on three different flights.
"I'm not sure about which flights to be used [to send them] to China. But the destinations are three cities in China," Mulyadi, head of the supervision and enforcement of the Banjarmasin Immigration Office, told Tempo on Tuesday, January 31, 2017.
According to Mulyadi, agents of the ten Chinese workers had sent the documents to the Immigration Office on Sunday, January 29, 2017. However, Mulyadi insisted on deporting the workers for not being able to show their passports during the inspection.
Earlier, the Banjarmasin Immigration Office detained ten Chinese workers consisting of nine males and a female in Banjarbaru, Banjarmasin.
Mulyadi declined to answer whether the Chinese workers obtained a temporary stay permit. Mulyaddi said that the Chinese nationals lived temporarily in Banjarbaru, but they worked at the Pulang Pisau Steam-Fueled Power Plant Project in South Kalimantan. The Chinese workers said that their documents were being processed in Jakarta to extend their work visas.
"They work at Pulang Pisang Steam-Fueled Power Plant as boilers, engineers, and translators. Some of them can use laptops, which means that they are not manual workers," Mulyadi added.
DIANANTA P. SUMEDI
