Jalan Jaksa is famous for being Jakarta’s main street catering to backpacking tourists as well as foreigners of more ill-repute, some of whom are in Indonesia illegally.
Last night at around 10pm, a team from the Central Jakarta Immigration Office as well as members of the military did a sweep of Jaksa looking for foreigners who had entered the country illegally or who had overstayed their visas.
Immigration said they found five foreigners who could not provide them with the proper documents, including two from Austria, one from Italy, one from Cameroon and one from Nigeria.
The man from Nigeria offered the most resistance. Immigration officers had to chase him 200 meters before the man got surrounded by officers while trying to open the door to a locked building.
After one of the officers asked him why he was running, the Nigerian man tried to run away again but was restrained by the neck by another officer.
Officers then dragged the man over to their vehicle, during which he resisted and tried to escape the whole time. When one of the officers moved to handcuff him, Kompas says the Nigerian man yelled “You want to fight me?”
Immigration officer Andi Riswa said his department had been chasing after the unidentified Nigerian man for quite some time as he had overstayed his visa for almost two years but was always moving around.
Officers said all five foreigners would be brought to the Central Jakarta Immigration Office for further questioning.
