Break The TTPO Chain, Batam Immigration Rejects 5,400 Passport Making

Head of Immigration Class 1 Special TPI Batam Subki Miuldi. (Doc. ANTARA/Yude)

BATAM - Throughout 2023, Immigration Class I for the Special Immigration Checkpoint (TPI) Batam, Riau Islands, has rejected 5,400 applications for passport making suspected of being misused.

Head of Immigration Class 1 Special TPI Batam Subki Miuldi, in Batam, Wednesday, said the rejection was his party's attempt to break the chain of criminal acts of trafficking in persons (TPPO).

"Until this month, there have been 5,400 applications for passport making that we have rejected at the Batam Immigration," said Subki, quoted from ANTARA, Wednesday, June 28.

The rejection of this passport application is said to have increased when compared to 2022 with the same period. Where the Batam Immigration Office rejected 4,300 applications for passport making.

The rejection, he said, was the result of data collection and interviews from the passport maker who was suspected of potentially abusing the use of passports if they were issued.

"Currently it is very strict for the making of passports by our officers against the applicants. For this we cannot explain in detail," he said.

Efforts were made to prevent the person's trade, his party not only rejected the making of passports, but also tightened the examination of people who wanted to go abroad at immigration checkpoints.

"We also apply an examination for doors to foreign countries. If they are suspected, an interview will be conducted first," he concluded.