00:00 "In the media, I have announced that the Migrant Repatriation Programme will be implemented
00:08 starting today, 1st March, ending 31st December.
00:12 The purpose is to allow foreigners without permission to return to their country freely.
00:19 Why are they here?
00:21 They are over-reaching.
00:23 Why are they here?
00:24 They misuse their passports.
00:27 Why are they here?
00:28 They have no documents at all.
00:31 These are all the mistakes that can lead to their imprisonment.
00:35 In this period, starting today,
00:38 if they have this category, they can come to the Immigration Department.
00:44 They can show their documents, if they have any.
00:48 Or they can show a document from their embassy,
00:53 like an emergency certificate, for example. That's enough.
00:58 We will process them.
01:00 And of course, they will be given a minimum compunct.
01:03 For example, they have an Immigration Act,
01:06 Section 601(c)
01:09 "Malaysia's entry into the country without a valid passport".
01:13 We will give them a compunct of 500.
01:16 They were prisoners.
01:17 But this is the period that we feel,
01:20 1st of March, in two weeks, we will be in Ramadan.
01:24 So they can return.
01:26 Another thing, they will be given more time,
01:29 after the passports are expired.
01:32 We will give them a compunct of 500.
01:35 And if they violate the Immigration Regulations,
01:38 which is a violation of the passports,
01:41 their passports are already in the field.
01:42 Suddenly, they work in the service sector, for example.
01:45 That's wrong. So we will give them a compunct of 300.
01:48 They pay for the compunct,
01:50 then they can return to our country,
01:53 without a valid passport.
01:54 Okay?
01:56 We also work with several embassies,
02:00 including the embassies of Indonesia, Nepal,
02:04 where I would like to thank these two embassies,
02:08 because they also help make it easier.
02:11 Because they have to come to the Immigration Department.
02:16 So the embassies can provide transportation facilities.
02:22 Sometimes our payments are online.
02:25 Immigration doesn't accept cash payments.
02:28 So the embassies help with the payment process
02:32 via telegram, for their people.
02:34 So their people collect it, and then it's a different story.
02:37 But in that way, it makes our process easier.
02:41 In the previous year, the program recorded a record of 225,000
02:49 who benefited from the Sukarela program,
02:52 which we did not control.
02:54 [END]
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