Going home: (JP/P.J. Leo)
Filipino singer Christian Bautista has been deported from Indonesia after he was found violating immigration regulations by using his visiting visa to work.
The immigration office found him conducting a show at Lippo Karawaci, Tangerang on Wednesday evening.
“We will deport him this [Friday] afternoon,” a spokesman of the immigration directorate general at the Law and Human Rights Ministry, Sukoadji said on Friday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Christian had a 30-day visiting visa since Wednesday but apparently used the opportunity to hold a concert on the day he arrived in Indonesia, Sukoadji added.
The singer, who rose into fame in Indonesia with the hit single “The Way You Look at Me”, was questioned by immigration officers from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Friday. (iwa)