Nunukan, N Kalimantan – The Malaysian federal government has once again deported over a hundred Indonesian migrant workers who have finished their jail term after being imprisoned for migration and criminal offenses in the state of Sabah.
The deportees boarded a vessel from Sabah’s Tawau port, and got to Tunon Taka port in Nunukan district, North Kalimantan province, on Thursday afternoon.
They were received by local immigration officials, police officers, and representatives of the Firm for the Security of Indonesian Migrant Employees (BP2MI).
They used face masks, cleaned hands, and practiced physical distancing in between themselves and the authorized individuals, as mandated in the Indonesian federal government’s health procedures for containing the spread of COVID-19
According to the Indonesian Consulate’s document number 832/ Kons/IX/2020, outdated September 2, 2020, the deportees consist of 103 guys, 22 ladies, and 6 toddlers.
Yuliansyah, a 31- year-old deportee hailing from Bulukumba district in South Sulawesi province, stated he was apprehended for four months in Tawau’s detention house over a drug case.
The deportees were taken from the Tunon Taka port to a momentary shelter in the Nunukan Selatan community before being allowed to go back to their hometowns.
The Malaysian federal government has repeatedly deported undocumented and distressed Indonesian migrant employees over the past couple of years.
In August in 2015, for example, Malaysia had deported 149 Indonesians, who had actually been detained in connection with a number of cases, to Nunukan district in North Kalimantan.
The 149 deportees comprised 12 who had actually been detained for their participation in drug cases, 3 for criminal cases, 57 for overstaying, and 37 for unlawfully entering Malaysia. A total of 38 deportees had been born in Sabah.
Before being deported to Nunukan, the Indonesians had served their jail terms at the Kemanis Papar and Menggatal detention centers in Malaysia.
Amidst the continuous COVID-19 pandemic, the Malaysian government has launched a number of thousand undocumented Indonesian migrant employees from the nation’s immigration detention houses and repatriated them to Indonesia.
Prior to their repatriation, all the employees were analyzed utilizing the Rapid Test Package Antigen (RTK Antigen) approach to check for the existence of coronavirus.
Like several countries around the world, Malaysia has actually been striving to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections and handle the socio-economic effects of the illness, which initially emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
The Malaysian federal government had actually also implemented a motion control order (MCO) to decrease the spread of COVID-19 infections. (INE)
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