26 Passengers Of KM Sinabung Banned From Getting Off In Sorong For Using Fake Health Documents

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JAYAPURA - As many as 26 passengers from Bau-bau port who were supposed to disembark at Sorong Port are currently still at KM Sinabung because they used fake health documents.

These passengers are prohibited from getting off the ship and will then be returned and dropped off at the port of origin they boarded.

Head of the Jayapura Port Health Quarantine Office Herold Pical, quoted by Antara, Thursday, July 29, emphasized that the 26 passengers were not allowed to get off the ship, including when the ship docked at Jayapura Port.

Actually, the 26 passengers of KM Sinabung got off at the port of Sorong, but because the travel documents they had were fake, they were not allowed to disembark so they were on the ship to Jayapura Port.

At the port of Jayapura they were also not allowed to get off the ship until the ship returned to sailing.

The fake documents owned by the passengers were related to the COVID-19 vaccination certificate and the results of the rapid antigen examination, Pical said.

According to him, Jayapura KKP officers both on duty at the Jayapura Port and Sentani Airport, several times found prospective passengers using fake documents, whether they were certificates of rapid antigen or vaccine results.

"When we find the case in the field, we ask them to postpone the trip and process the documents legally," said Pical.