Head of the Nunukan Immigration Office Nasution, who received the group in Nunukan on Thursday, said the migrant workers has served jail terms in Kinibalu, Sabah, for several months before being deported.
The Malaysian government found the Indonesians guilty of illegally entering that country for which they were sent to jail, Nasution said.
They were caught in a routine raid by the Malaysian police against illegal migrants.
The group included 21 women and six children , Nasution said.
Last months the government of Malaysia deported 148 Indonesian migrant workers via Nunukan.
Earlier, the head of the Entikong immigration office in West Kalimantan, Zulkifli, said Malaysia had also deported 35 illegal Indonesian migrant workers through Sarawak, East Malaysia, for allegedly violating immigration laws.
Zulkifli said the deported migrant workers were from Jakarta, South Sumatra, Central Java, West Java and Pontianak.
According to Zulkifli, the illegal migrant workers returned home through the cross border check-point (PPLB) at Entikong.
Meanwhile, chief of the Entikong subdistrict police office, Adjunct Commissioner Iwan Setiawan, noted that the police were still investigating whether these workers had sought jobs in Malaysia by their own initiative or through an agent.
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