3 Sri Lankan Fishermen Rescued After The Floating Ship In The Indian Ocean Will Be Returned

JAKARTA - Three foreign nationals (WNA) from Sri Lanka entered Jakarta without carrying travel documents in the form of passports due to disasters.

"The three foreigners experienced a disaster in the midst of their shipping activities in the high seas of the Indian Ocean," said Head of Immigration Inspection Subsection of the Class I Immigration Office of North Jakarta TPI Kharisma Rukmana, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, June 30.

The team will immediately repatriate them via Soekarno-Hatta Airport after the Sri Lankan Embassy in Indonesia issues an emergency passport for them.

"The three Sri Lankan crew members are temporarily placed in the immigration detention room to wait for their emergency passports to be issued and then the repatriation process will be carried out soon," Kharisma said.

The three foreigners are Ithayarsan Chanturu, Anton Nevi Badminton, Alekkish Ajid Gihan Coors. They arrived at the Ocean Fishing Port (PPS) Nizam Zachman on Thursday (29/6).

The three were rescued by Indonesian fishermen on the Cahaya Putra Lestari Motorboat from the high seas of the Indian Ocean at coordinates S 05 deg20'50", E89 deg40'60" on Sunday (18/6).

The captain of KM Cahaya Putra Lestari, Tarjoko, said the three fishermen were found adrift in waters near Sibolga, North Sumatra.

"In my position, it is close to Sibolga, but they are already off our line. If I look at them, they are still 800 miles from the position of my ship. So, there is a free zone, not Sri Lankan waters but international waters," said Tarjoko.

These foreigners were found in the waters which are a route for the activities of international fishermen and there are many skipjack fish or tuna.

KM Cahaya Putra Lestari then pulled them so they could get on the ship.

The Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is collaborating with the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Protocol and Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Directorate General of Immigration of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights handed over three survivors of a fishing boat that sank in the waters of the high seas of the Indian Ocean to the Sri Lankan Embassy.