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Police Accused in Immigrants’ Escape
Eras Poke | March 12, 2010

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Probo Dj
1:24pm Mar 13, 2010

Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.

peterR
7:08am Mar 13, 2010

Just when will enough be enough. Indonesia's police force is a criminal organization that feeds like a parasite off of the people. To a man they are corrupt and it is hard to understand why the people do not put a stop to it once and for all.

Roland
12:37am Mar 13, 2010

Leeson learned from this flop - do not put your bribe money into a local bank account!

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Kupang. East Nusa Tenggara Police are looking into allegations that top officers from the Sabu Barat subdistrict helped 43 illegal immigrants escape from the province in exchange for Rp 400 million ($43,600) in bribe money, the province’s police chief said on Friday.

Chief Comr. Yorry Yance Worang said he had received evidence supporting the allegations on Thursday.

“We are going to investigate this case thoroughly,” Yorry said, a day after members of the House of Representatives Commission III, which oversees human rights, handed over a report on the bribery allegations.

The report included copies of receipts indicating that money had been deposited into the bank accounts of several Sabu Barat Police officers.

Herman Herry, a Commission III member from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), said on Thursday that he hoped the case would spur police reforms. “While this case reflects badly on the image of the National Police, we hope it will lead to increased transparency in the way the police handle illegal immigrants,” he said.

Herman said the immigrants, Afghan and Turkish nationals, were taken into police custody on Jan. 12 in the village of Menia in Sabu Barat after they were found stranded off Bekarang beach in East Nusa Tenggara. Police arrested the immigrants after the engine of their chartered boat failed. The immigrants, mostly adult males with the exception of two children, said they had chartered the boat for Rp 50 million from Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara and had been headed for Australia.

Brig. Gen. Antonius Bambang Suedi, a former chief of the East Nusa Tenggara Police, said police released the immigrants after Sabu Barat Police Chief Insp. Yoseph Kalasansius Dhosa received orders over the telephone from a man claiming he was the head of immigration-related crimes at National Police headquarters. The immigrants were allowed to board a boat the next morning, and ended up embarking for Australia.