Entikong Youth Team Supervises Illegal Immigrant Rat Road At Indonesia-Malaysia Border

ENTIKONG - The Entikong and Sekayam surveillance team of the Indonesia-Malaysia border, Sanggau Regency, West Kalimantan Province carried out joint operations in the context of surveillance of foreigners in the area. "We carried out mappings on the rat route and also formed an intelligence network with the public preventing smuggling or trafficking of people," said Head of Immigration Class II TPI Entikong Sam Fernando, reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, March 8. Delivered Fernando, mapping for rat roads or non-procedural lanes to anticipate the occurrence of Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) legally and foreigners from outside countries. In addition, joint operations of surveillance of foreigners in the border area also to maintain national security and interest stability from negative impacts that may arise due to the existence and activities of foreigners who may enter Indonesia without going through the Immigration checkpoint. "The merging operation involved a number of related parties, be it TNI, Polri and other related parties," Fernando said. Regarding the supervision of foreigners, Fernando said to cross agencies with his respective authorities was also given an understanding of immigration policies, namely the selective policy, which regulates that only foreigners provide benefits and does not endanger the security of the state only that could enter Indonesia... 01. 2023 concerning immigration policies regarding the arrival of electronic arrivals, visas during arrivals and visa-free visits to support continuous tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. 01.01.01 2022 concerning Immigration ease in order to support sustainable tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic period and the latter has been changed to the Dirjenim number of IMI-0076.GR.01.01 2023 concerning immigration policies regarding immigration services on the arrival of Indonesian citizens, especially during arrivals and visa-free visas to support continuous tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that until now there have been 10 countries in Asean that have been granted access-free facilities for tourist visits and 89 countries that have been subject to electronic or non-electronic countries on arrival.

Then, cross-institutions can carry out early detection of violations of applicable regulations that may occur related to the presence of foreigners or non-procedural human crossings according to the authority given by the law to their respective agencies. In this activity, monitoring is also carried out the readiness of Traditional Border Posts in Bantan, as readiness if later the Malindo Sosek cross-border agreement has been renewed and enforced.