Bali Immigration Targets Business Places To Monitor Naughty Caucasians

BETWEEN/HO-Kanwil Kemenkumham Bali

Immigration in Bali together with the Foreigner Monitoring Team (Pora) targeted a number of places of business to supervise rogue foreign nationals (WNA) who misused residence permits.

"Supervision is carried out with full caution," said Head of Intelligence and Immigration Enforcement of the Bali Provincial Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Setyo Budiwardoyo, in Denpasar, as reported by ANTARA, Monday, August 12.

This also involves the Bali High Prosecutor's Office, the Bali National and Political Unity Agency (Kesabngpol), the TNI Strategic Intelligence Agency (Bais), and the Bali Regional State Intelligence Agency (Binda).

He explained that surveillance operations were carried out in two times, namely during the day and at night.

In one team for each session consists of four to five supervisors. They began to seek information on a number of business places, such as restaurants and other business places at a number of tourist destinations that were strongly suspected of employing illegal foreigners, one of which was Seminyak, Badung Regency.

Despite supervising foreigners, he ensured that it was carried out without any pressure on business actors.

"We want to make sure that all business owners understand the applicable rules without feeling pressured," he added.

While the second session was held at night by targeting entertainment venues and nightclubs in tourist areas, for example in Canggu and Seminyak, both of them are in Badung Regency.

" Malam entertainment venues get special attention because of the potential for higher violations, including criminal activities that may involve foreigners," he said.

Based on data from the Ngurah Rai Immigration Crossing Bali, during the January-June 2024 period, there were already 2.9 million foreign tourists visiting Bali who entered through I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Specifically for the Ngurah Rai Immigration Office, the number of foreigners who were deported reached 66 people, detention as many as 89 and detention as many as 52 people.

Foreigners who receive immigration administrative measures are related to various reasons ranging from misuse of residence permits, exceeding the residence permit period to being involved in criminal cases.

Meanwhile, the number of foreigners who were refused entry during that period reached 561 people for a number of reasons, including because they were involved in a criminal case, did not have a visa, the validity period of the passport was less than six months, was included in the checking list to the pursuit of Interpol.