Indon illegals going home
PORT KLANG: More than 8,000 Indonesian illegal immigrants took advantage of the amnesty provided by the Government to return home on the eve of Hari Raya via the various ports in the country.
Among them are some 1,400 immigrants who were sent home aboard an Indonesian navy ship, Kris Nusa Neve, from Port Klang last night.
The ship – the first deployed by the Indonesian Government during the amnesty period – will call on ports in Jakarta, Semarang and Surabaya.
Immigration enforcement director Datuk Ishak Mohamed, who was present at the Southpoint Terminal here, said about 95,000 immigrants had been deported out of the country since the amnesty offer began late last month.
Of the number, he said, about 85,000 of them were Indonesians while the rest were from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, Singapore and other countries.
“There was no cost involved on the part of the Malaysian Government as the immigrants had paid for their own flight and ferry tickets,” he told reporters last night.
Earlier yesterday, more than 1,000 Indonesians left by ferry through the Southpoint Terminal.
Ishak said illegal foreign workers who could not get flight tickets out of the country during this peak period must get the earliest available tickets and report to the Immigration Department operations centres to avoid detention at the end of the amnesty period.
Nationwide enforcement against illegal foreign workers and those who had overstayed would go on as planned in January.
In Malacca, illegal immigrants who took up the amnesty offer were each given a pack of food and drink by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam and Puteri Umno chief Noraini Ahmad at the jetty yesterday.
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