Three Indonesian nationals deported from Turkey, arrived at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport on Friday evening.
Bali Police spokesman superintendent Hengky Widjaja said the group was deported because they were suspected of trying to get in with ISIS.
“It’s suspected that they were going to join the ISIS network, so they were deported by the Turkish government,” Widjaja told reporters on Monday.
All three, which Widjaja identified by their initials as men AR, 20 and BSIR, 48, and a young woman, ZZG, 17, were flown back to Indonesia via Bali on Emirates flight EK 398 from Dubai. AR is reportedly from Karawang, West Java, while BSIR and ZZG are from Tasikmalaya.
Upon arrival in Bali, immigration brought the three in for questioning by Densus 88, a special forces squad that specializes in counterterrorism.
All three claimed to have left Bali to go to Jakarta on a Garuda flight, then over to Turkey with Turkish Airlines on March 28, 2017. They were detained after landing in Turkey on the grounds of incomplete documentation.
BSIR, however, claimed that his daughter, ZZG, had just married AR in December 2016 and they were traveling to Turkey for their honeymoon. But when asked by authorities to present a marriage certificate, they were unable to do so.
