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Indonesia Refuses Entry to 32 Indian Nationals

Indonesian immigration officials in Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport has refused to allow 32 Indian citizens from entering the country, days after an influx of Indian nationals escaping the worsening Covid-19 outbreak there raised concerns among Indonesian politicians.

Soekarno-Hatta Immigration office head Romy Yudianto confirmed the report. “We refused to grant entry to 32 Indian nationals, as they failed to meet the criteria to enter Indonesia,” he said on Saturday, April 24. He did not elaborate further.

“The [Indian citizens] arrived on an Emirates flight. We will put them on a flight [back to India] on the same airline in the early morning of Sunday, April 25.”
Ministry of Justice and Human Director General Jhoni Ginting said their repatriation is part of the government’s decision to temporarily bar entry of Indian nationas to Indonesia, so as to safeguard Indonesia from the Covid-19 outbreak sweeping through India.

India has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases recently. The country’s medical system all but collapsed, as hospitals have to deal with more than 300 thousand cases daily over the past few weeks.

Source:

https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2021/04/24/21013301/32-wn-india-di-bandara-soekarno-hatta-ditolak-masuk-ke-indonesia.