Tito Andriano, a spokesman of the Karawang Immigration Office, said the National Police Headquarters officers later handed the 77 illegal immigrants to Karawang immgiration.
He said the 77 illegal immigrants were handed to the Karawang immigration office because they were arrested within its office`s jurisdiction.
The illegal immigrants said they had intended to go to Australia to seek asylum.
They said they were on their way from Jakarta to Surabaya, East Java, from where they would take a boat to Australia.
Meanwhile, according to the acting head of the Karawang Immigration Office, Hertjansyah Wirandinata, said 17 of the illegal Afghan immigrant group had escaped so that his office was no only holding 60 of them.
(Uu.A014/HAJM)
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