Indonesia to Deport Brazilian Man

Palu, Indonesia (News Today) - A Brazilian named Valdir De Silva would soon be deported from Indonesia, Head of Palu Immigration Office’s Detention Unit Yusuf Saddu said.

"Valdir will have been sent back to his country via Jakarta in the first week of August," he told newsmen here Tuesday.

Valdir who got married to an Indonesian woman from Central Sulawesi town of Palu and has two kids was arrested on July 13. Caught at his home in the Kalukubula housing complex here, he was alleged to have no legal immigration documents, Saddu said.

During his stay in Central Sulawesi province, Valdir had once been recruited as a soccer player by the Palu-based soccer club, Persipal, from 2006 to 2008. According to Valdir, he lost his passport sometime ago but he did not report it to the polie or immigration authorities.

To enable him to return to Brazil, he needs a passport, and if he wanted to go back to Indonesia, he needs to have a valid visa, Saddu said. Last April, the Indonesian immigration authorities in Madiun, East Java, had also deported a Bangladeshi Joy Mesiran for illegal stay in Indonesia.

The 27-year-old Joy Mesiran had lived with his Indonesian wife in Plunturan village, Pulung sub-district, Ponorogo regency for 12 years, Head of the Madiun Immigration Office Ramli HS said. "Mesiran lived with his wife, Yulyani, and worked in Singapore. The couple had two children," he said.

Ramli HS said his people knew about the Bangladeshi’s whereabouts from local residents but they became confused with the fact that he managed to obtain Indonesian legal papers. The immigration authorities who questioned found that he was a Bangladeshi citizen but local residents supposed that he was an Indonesian citizen due to the Indonesian documents in his possession.

Among the Indonesian documents that he had were a family certificate, the citizen’s card, driving license, and general election card, Ramli HS said. But he failed to show the immigration authorities the Indonesian citizenship documents. Joy Mesiran was quoted as saying that he had a lawyer handle his Indonesian citizenship processing by paying him Rp50 million.

With the citizen card and other important documents that he received from his lawyer, he supposed that he had truly become an Indonesian citizen, Mesiran told the immigration authorities. With the absence of the legal Indonesian immigration documents, Mesiran could not stay in Indonesia.

Source : kompas

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