Came across this
news report of foreign nationals violating their Indonesian visa conditions. Looks like the authorities are cracking down on such activities lately.
Immigration Office Arrests 19 Foreign National ‘Spa’ Girls
Written by Roffie Kurniawan Wednesday, 26 May 2010 22:37
Directorate general for immigration at the Law and Human Rights Ministry has arrested 19 foreign national women who are working at Spa V2 in Gajah Mada area, down town Jakarta, for alleged violation of entry visa ruling.
“We suspect they have violated permit to stay (visa),” director for investigation at the immigration office M. Husin Alaydrus was quoted by State-owned Antara news agency as saying late Wednesday.
The women, described as ‘sexy girls’ by some online news, came from various countries– five from China, four from Thailand, one from Philippine, four from Vietnam and five from Uzbezkishtan.
Husin said his office arrested the girls for failure to show proper immigration documents, for instance permission to stay. They were suspected to have violated Law No. 9, Year 1992 on Immigration. He said his office will question them before imposing proper sanction.
Unfortunately, most of them could not speak either English or Indonesian, which makes it difficult for the immigration officers to question them. Will they be released? On what condition?
The arrest was not the first time. Similar cases have happened in the past, but often they were sent home, but some coming back to town again.