Located In Gorontalo After 11 Day Of Terombang Ambing In The Sea, A Filipino Citizen Was Secured To The Immigration Office

Two officers brought a fisherman from the Philippines Rayhon Guillen in a press release at the Immigration Office in Gorontalo City, Gorontalo/ANTARA

GORONTALO - The Class 1 Immigration Office of the Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Gorontalo, secured and examined a Filipino fisherman named Rayhon Guillen in Gorontalo City, Gorontalo Province. Head of the Gorontalo Immigration Office, Joni Rumagit, said that his party received information regarding the stranded foreign fishermen from Polairud Tolinggula, North Gorontalo Regency on August 7, 2022. "We will immediately take quick steps in the context of securing the person concerned for further examination at the Gorontalo Immigration Office," he said in Gorontalo, Antara, Thursday, September 1. Since August 10, 2022, the Immigration Office has received Rayhon and then placed in the Immigration Detention Room in accordance with the applicable Immigration provisions. "While at the Class 1 Immigration Office, Gorontalo concerned was given his rights as a detention in accordance with humanitarian principles," said Joni. Such as the need to eat, drink, and access to contact the Philippine Consulate General in Manado in the context of deepening the citizenship affirmation in question, including contacting his family in Davao, Philippines. Based on the Gorontalo Provincial Level Youth and Sports Meeting, it was decided that in order to provide protection, the matter of fulfilling the rights and in order to maintain a very good bilateral relationship between Indonesia and the Philippines, the person concerned will be transferred to the Manado Immigration Detention Center. "This is done to make it easier to communicate with the Philippine Consulate General in Manado," he explained. Rayhon, who works as a fisherman, admitted that he was adrift for 11 days at sea and stranded on the beach in the Tolinggula area, North Gorontalo. Joni added that the Philippine Consulate General had conducted interviews with Rayhon Guillen four times via video call. On that occasion, the wife of Rayhon Guillen was also present in the Philippines.