Immigration Chasing Brain Smuggling Of Dozens Of Malaysian Passports To RI

Soetta Immigration with the Ministry of Law and Human Rights of DKI Jakarta showed a number of evidences of illegal Malaysian passport smuggling efforts to Indonesia. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Immigration Office Officer for Immigration Checkpoint (TPI) Soekarno-Hatta (Soetta), Tangerang, Banten, is hunting for a perpetrator controlling the smuggling of dozens of Malaysian passports to Indonesia.

Head of the Soetta Immigration Office, Subki Miludi, said that the mastermind controlling passport smuggling was known to have the initials R to have been on the wanted list (DPO) of Indonesian Immigration.

"Investigators continue to develop this case and pursue perpetrator R, who is known to be still in Indonesia," he said in Tangerang, Wednesday, July 24, which was confiscated by Antara.

He explained that the perpetrator R, who is a citizen or of Indian descent, is known to control two foreign nationals (WNA) with the initials SK (47) and JM (34). The two foreigners have been successfully secured by airport authorities.

"We have communicated this finding with the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta. As a follow-up, we obtained a letter explaining that dozens of previously smuggled passports had been reported missing," he said.

He revealed that the attempts to smuggle dozens of passports illegally by the perpetrators were suspected of being traded and used as a crime facility for trafficking in persons (TPPO).

"Because judging from the validity period, it is still long. The 12 passports may be used for Malaysians in Indonesia," he said.

Subki added that from the results of the examination of the two arrested perpetrators, it was known that they were lured with wages by the controller amounting to 1,000 ringgit or around Rp. 3,000,000 for one passport delivery.

The two perpetrators were charged with Article 130 of Law No. 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration with a maximum imprisonment of two years and/or a maximum fine of Rp. 200 million.