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500 Indonesian workers deported
Published on: Monday, October 12, 2020
Published on: Mon, Oct 12, 2020
By: Nikko Fabian
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500 Indonesian workers deported
“Normally, they (illegal migrants) will be sent to depos as part of preparations for deportation,” Coordinator for consular functions at the embassy, Rijal Al Huda, said.
Kota Kinabalu: Some 500 illegal Indonesian migrant workers from peninsula were deported to Jakarta Saturday.

The foreign workers were arrested and detained at the Immigration holding centres in Johor Baru and Perak for various immigration violations (pic).

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They were flown back home on chartered AirAsia flights originating from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) 2, in Sepang, Saturday, in three groups. The first group of 150 people were flown to Surabaya on an AirAsia AK7356 flight, which departed at 9.25am.
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