100 Bangladeshi refugees
deported


thejakartapost.com, Lhokseumawe | Archipelago | Wed, August 05 2015, 2:01 PM


The Lhokseumawe Immigration Office said on Wednesday it had repatriated 100 Bangladeshi refugees who had been accommodated at an old immigration office in Blang Mangat, Lhokseumawe.

The Office’s head of immigration surveillance and law enforcement, Albert Djalius, said in Lhokseumawe on Wednesday that the Bangladeshi refugees, who had been stranded in Aceh since May, could be deported as they had completed their immigration documents.


The Bangladeshi refugees were sent home in two waves, on Tuesday and Wednesday, via Kuala Namu International Airport in North Sumatra, the Office said.


With the latest deportation, Indonesia has returned home 150 undocumented immigrants from Bangladesh.


According to the Immigration Office, 71 Bangladeshi refugees are awaiting their deportation at temporary shelters in Lhokseumawe. They are still waiting for data relating to these refugees from the Bangladesh Embassy in Jakarta.


“It is predicted that by the middle of August, all of these Bangladeshi immigrants will have been deported,” said Albert.

The immigration official said that in deporting the undocumented immigrants, the government got assistance from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which had arranged all accommodation matters the refugees needed.

He added the deportation would continue to be conducted in stages. (ebf)


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