Immigration Bali Deportation 2 Chinese Citizens Violate Stay Permits

DENPASAR - The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office, Bali, deported two foreign nationals (WNA) from China who violated stay permits for more than a year.

"Both of them are on the deterrence list," said Head of the Bali Immigration Office Ngurah Rai Sugito in Denpasar as reported by ANTARA, Friday, June 9.

The two foreigners from the bamboo curtain country had the initials SY and XZ who had no connection.

SY, he said, was arrested in the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport area and immediately detained at the Denpasar Immigration Detention Center (Rudenim) on June 6, 2023.

Meanwhile, XZ was arrested in the Kuta area, Badung Regency and detained at the Denpasar Rudenim on May 31, 2023.

Sugito said SY arrived in Indonesia via Soekarno Hatta Airport on December 19, 2022 using the Visa on Arrival (VoA) facility or a visit visa upon arrival.

The 38-year-old man's residence permit ended on January 17, 2023, exceeding the stay period of more than 60 days.

Meanwhile, the 39-year-old XZ entered Indonesia through Soekarno Hatta Airport on January 29, 2020 and his residence permit was valid until April 29, 2022.

Thus, XZ has been in Indonesia for more than a year without a valid residence permit.

Both were charged with Article 78 Paragraph 3 of Law Number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration with deportation and deterrence.

In accordance with Article 102 paragraph 1 of the Law, the maximum period of deterrence is six months and each time it can be extended for a maximum of six months.

They were then deported on June 8, 2023 via I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, namely SY riding Xiamen Airlines, MF-892 to Xiamen city then heading to Beijing. Meanwhile, XZ boarded Sriwijaya Air, SJ-1134 to Fuzhou.

Immigration in Bali is aggressively conducting immigration patrols to curb rogue foreigners who violate stay permits.

To maintain order and obey the law in Indonesia, Immigration has also begun distributing cards containing a list of prohibitions and obligations while on the Island of the Gods to foreign tourists when they arrive at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport.

For the initial stage, Immigration printed and distributed as many as 1,000 cards which contained 12 obligations and eight restrictions while in Bali.

The pocket card was tucked in an international passenger passport when they finished checking their identity and getting an Immigration stamp.

Based on records from the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of Bali Province, since January-May 2023 as many as 129 foreign nationals were deported from Bali.

Meanwhile, since the international door was reopened in Bali from May 2022 to December 2022, forced action to remove problematic foreigners from Indonesian territory reached 194 people.

The causes vary from violating residence permits, abusing residence permits, criminal acts to violating norms in Bali.