Deported From PNG, The Governor Of Papua Pays Taxi Bike IDR 100,000

DOK ANTARA / Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe

JAYAPURA - Papua Governor Lukas Enembe gave IDR 100,000 after being escorted to the border via the traditional road or mouse road in Skouw to Wutung, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Enembe was deported from Papua New Guinea for illegal entry.

"When I escorted to the PNG border, Wednesday (2/4) I did not know if it was Papua Governor Lukas Enembe, because he was wearing a mask and took a ride with one of the passengers who came with him", said Hendri, a taxi bike driver who was met around Skouw, the border Republic of Indonesia-PNG, quoted by Antara, Friday, April 2.

This taxi bike driver had conveyed that the cost given was too large. However, one of those who accompanied the governor stated that his colleagues were carrying other passengers in the group.

The group, which turned out to be Governor Lukas Enembe, was escorted to the border and it did not appear to pick up only a few motorcycle taxi drivers in Papua New Guinea.

The tariff to the border of PNG via the rat road or traditional road by taxi bike, only two kinas (kina is the PNG currency whose market exchange rate is around IDR 4,000/kina).

"I just found out if Governor Enembe was hitching a ride after being told by other taxi bike drivers", said Hendri, who admitted that he had only been a taxi bike driver at the border for about two years because he had previously been a public transportation driver.

Papua Governor Lukas Enembe previously admitted entering Papua New Guinea via footpaths using a taxi bike for medical treatment and therapy.

"I know what was wrong because I crossed and entered PNG via a footpath using a motorcycle taxi", admitted Enembe after examining the antigen test to find out whether he was exposed to COVID-19 or not.

Enembe went to Vanimo Wednesday, March 31 to get treatment for his illness.

While in Vanimo, he did therapy for his illness. The repatriation of Papua Governor Lukas Enembe from Vanimo, PNG, accompanied by the Indonesian Consul in Vanimo Allen Simarmata, when he arrived in the neutral zone, the Consul General Papua New Guinea Geoffrey L was picked up. Wiri and the Head of the Papua Provincial Border Affairs and Foreign Cooperation Agency Suzana Wanggai.