Two french reporters deported

Antara News, Wednesday, May 26, 2010 18:13 WIB

Jayapura (ANTARA News) - The Immigration office in Jayapura has deported via Jakarta two French journalists who had been arrested when covering a public rally in front of the Papua legislative assembly (DPRP) on Tuesday.

Jayapura immigration chief Robert Silitonga said Wednesday morning that this morning he has deported the two French reporters by a Garuda Indonesia plane flying to Jakarta.

An investigation of the two, Baudoin Koeniag, producer of Mano mano TV Arte, and Calol Helene Lorthiois, indicated that they have violated the permits that had been given to them.

They arrived in Jayapura on Tuesday morning in the company of an interpreter.

Silitonga said that following the investigation, of the two French journalists only Baudoin Koeniag had a reporting license issued by the Indonesian Tourism Ministry on April 20, 2010, for news coverage of Aceh, Jakarta, Bali, Gorontalo and Sorong, but not Jayapura.

The permit was for making a documentary film on Indonesia`s future, Silitonga said.

Carol, on the other hand, came to Indonesia using a tourist visa, and therefore the two French nationals have misused the permits given to them, Robert Silitonga added.

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