Ponorogo - Police in Ponorogo, Central Java, arrested 11 Afghan and Turkish illegal immigrants when they were traveling in a car on Sunday. "We arrested them because they did not have the required immigration documents," Ponorogo police chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Yudha Gustawan said. Yudha said none of the 11 illegal immigrants who were suspected to go to Christmas island in Australia had complete immigration document. According to him, the illegal immigrants from Afghanistan and Turkey did have passports issued by the immigration office of their respective countries, but they did not have any document such as residence visa or tourist visa from the Indonesian immigration office. "Because they illegally entered Indonesia without visa, we arrested them and then sent to immigration detention in Madium," Yudha said. He added that there were actually 12 people in a mini van but one of them fled when the police attempted to arrest them. After being detained for a while in Madium immigration detention house, they were then transported by a tourist bust to the East Java provincial capital city of Surabya. Yudha said the effort of smuggling foreign nationals into Christmas island in Australia was rampant recently, and about a week ago the police in Pacitan, East Java, also nabbed a ship which was about to carry some illegal immigrants to Christmas island. The ship with illegal immigrants on board set sail from Pasuruan and when it arrived at Pacitan bay, it had engine trouble and then the police nabbed it. (*)


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