Get Ready Traveler, One Year Account Mutation Will Become A Requirement To Go Abroad

JAKARTA - Minister of Immigration and Corrections (Imipas) Agus Andrianto said his ministry would increase immigration administrative requirements.

The terms in question require attaching account transfers for the past year in order to prevent the Crime of Trafficking in Persons (TIP).

"We see the account mutation, it is natural or unnatural that the person concerned is carrying out tourism activities, for example, or carrying out other activities," Agus said after attending a meeting of Commission XIII DPR RI at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Tuesday, November 5, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said the requirements are planned to be applied in areas where TIP has the potential to occur.

This provision, he continued, was to prevent residents from claiming to want to travel abroad, but turned out to be migrant workers.

"If the account is only 100-500 thousand, it's impossible for him to go on vacation," he said.

According to him, the Ministry of Imipas has also inaugurated 146 village development immigration officers who are deployed to areas that have the potential for TIP crime and as well as the Crime of Human Smuggling (TPPM).

So in addition to tightening immigration requirements in vulnerable areas, according to him, the officers also educate the public about the modes commonly used by TIP and TPPM actors in tricking their victims.

If necessary, he said that later the interview requirements would be applied as a condition for immigration in vulnerable areas. That way, the people who are TIP targets will be avoided.

As for the meeting with Commission XIII of the DPR RI, the former Deputy Chief of Police explained 13 of his priority programs ranging from eradicating drugs in correctional institutions, supporting food security, to building modern prisons.

In addition, he also introduced a number of his officials, ranging from Deputy Minister of Imipas Silmy Karim, to echelon 1 and echelon 2 officials in the newly formed ministry.