Bali Satpol PP Starts Inspection Of Immigrants

The Bali Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) began conducting inspections of migrants after the Eid al-Fitr holiday 2025 and the end of the flow backflow.

Head of Bali Satpol PP Dewa Nyoman Rai Dharmadi said there were three areas most focused on inspections, namely Denpasar, Badung, and Gianyar, because many migrant residents lived there.

"If there are migrant residents who have started to move, such as in Badung, they have moved, following for other districts," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, April 9.

"There are three pockets scattered, especially the arrival destinations, namely Denpasar, Badung, and Gianyar areas, which are mostly in accordance with the monitoring report," continued Rai Dharmadi.

The head of the Bali Satpol PP explained that inspections in the pockets of migrants' residences were important because Bali always had many people arriving after the holiday, they were often invited by relatives or friends to travel to the Island of the Gods but not all of them had a clear purpose.

What became a concern for the Bali Provincial Government was then the social and criminal problems caused by them, even though Bali was trying to maintain a positive image in the eyes of the world as a tourism area.

During the inspection, Rai Dharmadi and his staff will visit boarding houses that are often places for migrants to gather, then ask for their identities and ask for their destination to come to Bali.

It is emphasized that this inspection does not mean that Bali is anti-committee residents, but in fact, it is often the fact that people who do not have a clear goal can enter the Island of the Gods through unofficial routes such as through traditional ports so that they are not filtered at the main entrance.

"We will filter the location where he lives, if found, of course they will ask for the guarantor. They come here for sure an invitation from relatives or friends, we will ask the guarantor to coordinate at any time if there is anything and the person is easy to find," he said.

Rai Dharmadi said that before the inspection of the migrant population, the momentum of the return flow of his team had already monitored the arrival of people entering Bali, especially at Gilimanuk Port, because so far the cases related to migrant residents mostly came from residents from Java Island.

"If people are concerned about why they don't have an ID card, then there are no adult people who are not identified, instead we should suspect that they may have problems in their origin, we don't want it to become a social problem and even become a criminal problem in Bali," he asserted.

During the long Lebaran 2025 holiday itself, Satpol PP found at least 20 people without identities and destinations clearly wanted to enter Bali, where less than 10 people were dispatched back to Java Island and the rest were still passed because there was a guarantor.