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View all search results8 Afghan asylum seekers arrested in Puncak
Immigration authorities arrested eight Afghan citizens when they made an inventory of immigrants in Citeko village, Cisarua, Bogor, on Tuesday
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mmigration authorities arrested eight Afghan citizens when they made an inventory of immigrants in Citeko village, Cisarua, Bogor, on Tuesday.
The head of the Bogor immigration office, Herman Lukman, said on Tuesday that the arrests were conducted when several immigration officers assisted by the local military office and the police collected data on dozens of illegal immigrants from the Middle East in the mountainous resort area.
The eight Afghans would be handed over to the Directorate General on Immigration in Jakarta for further processing.
According to the immigration officers who collected the data on Middle Eastern people in the area, the Afghan citizens are asylum seekers holding cards from the UNHCR who are stopping over in Indonesia prior to traveling to a third country.
Herman said that until August, 2014, his office had collected data on around 300 Middle Eastern asylum seekers in the area.
'We hope locals file a report with the immigration office when illegal immigrants rent their houses in Puncak,' he said. (***)
