Thousands Of Foreign Citizens Have Been Sent Into Indonesia After Face Recognition Detection

Illustration of Soekarno Hatta Airport/ Photo: Bitor Ekin P

TANGERANG - TPI Special Class I Immigration Office Soekarno Hatta (Soetta) Tengerang, Banten, optimizes the role of technology in the function of supervision and prosecution of immigration laws in anticipation of international crimes and criminal acts of trafficking in persons (TPPO).

Head of the Special Class I Immigration Office of TPI Soekarno Hatta, Muhammad Tito Andrianto, said that the current era of digitalization reform should be used as part that helps support in countering problematic immigration.

"In the use of face recognition technology and autogate improvement, it is carried out for supervision, as well as maximum legal protection," Tito said, quoted from Antara, Monday, February 13.

He mentioned that the results of optimizing the role of technology in monitoring and taking legal action at this time were considered optimally, where his party had succeeded in refusing to enter 1,222 foreigners and delaying the departure of 4,119 people.

"Immigration refuses to enter 1,222 people and delays the departure of 4,119 people, consisting of 568 foreign nationals (WNA) and 3,551 Indonesian citizens (WNI) for various immigration reasons," he said.

He revealed that of the thousands of people who were successfully handled by the Soekarno Hatta Immigration, it was suspected that there were victims and perpetrators of international network crimes.

"Among them are also suspected of being illegal PMI (Indonesian migrant workers,)," he said.

He explained that since 2021 his party has used and developed a 'face recognition' technological innovation system that makes it easier to recognize people's faces on the standard prevention list, so that the system greatly helps the immigration control process at flight airports.

"With this tool, of course, the international criminals who are included in the'red notice' will be easily recognized," said Tito.