Indonesia Have No Policies to Prevent Illegal Immigrants

                            

ADELAIDE, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia does not have a clear policy in dealing with illegal immigrants. Police and Immigration also has no coordination in this matter.

So says Dr Muradi, senior lecturer at the University of Padjadjaran Bandung, in a symposium on the issue of migrant and diaspora Indonesia at Flinders University, Australia, Friday (12/04/2013) .

addition Muradi, appear also two migrant problem researchers from the University of Indonesia, Dwi Ardhanariswari Sundrijo, and Pierre Marthinus. The symposium was held at Flinders University with regard to the implementation of Indofest in the heart of Adelaide, Sunday (04/14/2013). So reports Reuters correspondent in Australia L Literature Wijaya .

According Muradi, the problem of illegal immigrants in Indonesia is also not considered a threat to national security, as well as the various agencies benefited from an influx of migrants then travel to Australia.

He said there were two groups of illegal migrants who arrived in Indonesia. Those who seek to use an Indonesian passport, a married woman Indonesia prior to Australia, and they were only the second group to make Indonesia as a transit country in the short term.

Since there is no policy on illegal immigrants, according Muradi, the various parties exploit this situation for their economic interests.

Muradi mention several parties including sub-district and village heads in a certain area, which gave the documents to the illegal migrants mengsahkan presence in their area. There is also the corrupt officials, police officers who helped immigrants went on a trip to Australia, and also the military with the same modus operandi.

Meanwhile, Pierre Marthinus Research Institute of Papua, discuss specific issues of internal migration in Papua. In his presentation, Marthinus said that in recent years, Papua would be a critical point because of the increasing number of non-Papuans in the area.

In 2010 the number of indigenous Papuans about 48 percent, whereas non-Papuan approximately 51 percent . By 2020 that number will differ sharply, because there are only 28 percent of indigenous Papuans, while 71 percent are people from other places.