Bogor Regent Overwhelmed With 1,690 Immigrants In Puncak

Bogor Regent Ade Yasin/PHOTO VIA Private Instagram

BOGOR - Bogor Regent Ade Yasin admitted that he was overwhelmed in responding to the number of asylum seekers or immigrants who now reached 1,690 people in the Puncak area, Bogor Regency, West Java.

“At Puncak there is a kind of shelter for foreigners. More and more day by day, even now the number has reached 1,690. This greatly disturbs our tourism and tourists who will come to Puncak," he said as quoted by Antara, Thursday, March 17.

According to him, there needs to be a solution from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkum HAM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), one of which is to prepare a special location for immigrants.

Ade Yasin said that the current condition is that thousands of immigrants live in the Puncak area without a definite livelihood.

"There must be a solution. Because they were placed there without work, without land to work on, eventually becoming unemployed, some of them ended up disturbing the surrounding community," said Ade Yasin.

The Bogor Regency Government (Pemkab) often encounters obstacles when it comes to controlling foreigners. Because it must be done by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.

"When we are going to control these foreigners, we must also coordinate with immigration. We cannot follow up with the Satpol PP and the Resort Police," he said.

The PPP politician hopes that the Indonesian Ombudsman can participate in providing solutions in dealing with the problem of the large number of asylum seekers in the Bogor Regency area.

"Our proposal is that we move it to a location where it is accommodated and also given land for growing crops. If they are placed in Puncak, there will be no work or land to work on," he said.