Couple charged with murder
MIRI: An Indonesian husband and wife was charged yesterday (Tuesday) at the Magistrate Court here with the killing of their fellow countryman last month. The charge was read out by senior assistant registrar Eleanor Mako Timothy to Madali Basri, 44, and his wife, Asmira Kadir, 38. No plea was taken from the couple. They were charged with […]
Three months’ jail for overstaying
KUCHING: A foreign man, who pleaded guilty to overstaying, was sentenced to three months’ jail today (May 4). Kuching Sessions Court judge Maris Agan ordered 28-year-old Ilham to be jailed in Puncak Borneo prison after pleading guilty under Section 15 (1) (c) of the Immigration Act 1959/63. Ilham admitted to being in Malaysia illegally for […]
Indonesian man held after gruesome find
LAWAS: A shirtless dead body of an Indonesian man with multiple slash wounds was found in a drain of an oil palm plantation in Kampung Siang Siang Laut here this morning. According to Acting Lawas police chief ASP Liong Tindan, the discovery was made by a member of the public at around 9.30am. He later […]
Nine including five Indonesians detained at roadblock
TATAU: Nine persons including five Indonesian nationals were detained for not having any travel document at a roadblock at Jalan Tatau/Sibu on Thursday (Apr 8). Tatau district police chief DSP Dennis Bunyam said the suspects were detained following inspections on two vehicles at the roadblock at 10.15pm. “All the suspects aged between 18 and 61 […]
Baby killers to know their fate on March 3
KUCHING: An Indonesian couple suspected of killing and burying their two-day-old baby alive in 2013 will know their fate on March 3. A panel of Federal Court judges led by Tun Tengku Maimum Tuan Mat, Datuk Seri Haji Mohd Zawawi Salleh and Datuk Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, set the appeal for that date as they still […]
625 foreign workers checked, 58 detained
KUCHING: As of today, 58 illegal foreign workers from Indonesia have been detained in Ops Jala operations. Sarawak Security and Enforcement Unit deputy director Datuk Mohamad Morshidi Mustapha said the detainees were among 668 local and 625 foreign workers from Indonesia, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, China and Myanmar checked. “To date, 22 construction sites and […]
Manhunt for gang robbers
KUCHING: Police are tracking down two Indonesian men who hit a taxi driver and robbed him at a road near Kampung Belimbing, Serian on Tuesday (Jan 26). Serian District Police chief Aswandy Anis said his department received a report on the incident from members of the public. Following this, he said the police launched Ops […]
Indonesia passes one million coronavirus cases
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Covid-19 cases topped the one million mark on Tuesday, as the archipelago launches one of the world’s biggest vaccine drives to clamp down on a soaring infection rate. The Southeast Asian nation of nearly 270 million has recorded 1,012,350 virus cases and almost 29,000 deaths, according to official data. But low testing rates […]
Human trade bid foiled
SERIAN: The General Operations Force (GOF) thwarted a human smuggling attempt by arresting a local agent (tekong) and six Indonesian illegal immigrants at Jalan Mongkos-Serian oil palm plantation on Saturday. District police chief DSP Aswandy Anis said the arrest was made at 7.50am when the GOF team was carrying out ‘Ops Benteng Covid’ patrols near […]
Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 crashes five minutes after take-off
KUCHING: Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 (registered PK-CLC) flight SJ182 between Jakarta and Pontianak, Indonesia has crashed five minutes after take-off. According to the passenger manifest, the flight carried 6 crew members and 56 passengers. Flightradar24-data indicated the aircraft departed the airport of Jakarta but lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one […]
