We check about 50 foreign staffs and teachers working here

Tens of foreign teachers who teach in Jakarta International School (JIS), Cilandak, South Jakarta, are threatened to be deported. Deportation will be conducted if South Jakarta Immigration Class I found violation in the employment documents.

“We check about 50 foreign staffs and teachers working here. For the mean time, those documents are neatly arranged in permission section,” stated Head of South Jakarta Immigration Supervision Section, Anggi Wicaksono, when visiting JIS to check the employment documents of foreign staffs and teachers working in the kindergarten (TK) until senior high school (SMA),including its management, Tuesday (4/22).

After 1.5 hours of checking, Wicaksono told that his party has not yet found violation in employment documents. Even so, they will keep checking.

“If there was violation, in accordance to Immigration Act, they will be deported,” he asserted.

Besides deporting violators, Indonesian Immigration will also give sanction to the institution that has hired illegal workers. Based on Immigration Act article 122 letter D, sanction for hiring foreign worker without permit is five years of imprisonment.