(SEAPA/IFEX) – Indonesian officials have deported an American journalist for having allegedly defied an earlier ban on his entry into the country. Freelance journalist William Arthur Nessen, whose articles on Aceh have appeared in the “San Francisco Chronicle” and the “Sydney Morning Herald”, was ordered to leave the country on 24 January 2005, after being […]
(SEAPA/IFEX) – Indonesian officials have deported an American journalist for having allegedly defied an earlier ban on his entry into the country.
Freelance journalist William Arthur Nessen, whose articles on Aceh have appeared in the “San Francisco Chronicle” and the “Sydney Morning Herald”, was ordered to leave the country on 24 January 2005, after being detained for one day. Nessen was held by immigration officials after he visited the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh, the Associated Press reported.
He reportedly arrived there on 3 January. Nessen entered Indonesia on the strength of a visa granted by immigration authorities. Indonesian officials said, however, the granting of the visa was a mistake, as an exclusion order on Nessen was issued in 2003. There had apparently been some confusion as to the expiry date on the exclusion order, and immigration officials clarified that Nessen should in fact be barred from Indonesia until August of this year.
