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View all search resultsIslands in focus: PNG deports 136 Indonesians
JAYAPURA: The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government has deported 136 Indonesian citizens for misusing their visas, alleging that the Indonesians entered the country on business visas but were working for timber companies
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AYAPURA: The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government has deported 136 Indonesian citizens for misusing their visas, alleging that the Indonesians entered the country on business visas but were working for timber companies.
The Indonesian Consul in Vanimo, Elmar Lubis, said that all of the deported Indonesian citizens had been working at lumber companies owned by a Malaysian businessman in Sandaun province.
'All the deportation costs were charged to the company. [The deportees] are currently in Jayapura and are set to be sent to their respective hometowns,' Elmar said in Jayapura on Friday.
Staff from the Indonesian Consulate in Vanimo, Elmar added, accompanied the deportees when they were sent home on Thursday.
'They weren't deported for any wrongdoing, but for administrative issues. The company that hired them was slow to arrange licenses,' he said.
