A Brief Report on the Kind of Labour "Ferrying/Transferring"
Two Thai nationals purposely alighted the bus at the Thai immigration checkpoint to conduct their own immigration protocols on July 23, 2017 @ about 11:00 am. They did not follow the pedestrian queue and follow the lines of procedures. As a matter of fact both of them spoke to vehicle touts (bike or car runners) and they were brought by them via their "immigration procedures" :-
1) One young Thai national aged 20s crossed with a group in a car. I did not see her at the Thai and Malaysian immigration. She claimed that she knew a friend who (is in Malaysia) that recommended her to cross with an individual that cleared both the Thai and Malaysian immigration without "fuss". At the first rest area, just after the immigration, I asked her whether she paid any amount of fees for leaving Thailand and entering Malaysia, she claimed "no" in Thai.
2) Another Thai individual happened to cross on a motorbike and somehow during the process she almost got left behind by the coach she was in together with me. Apparently, the Malay lady that brought her across (on a bike) was looking for her. Apparently, this Thai national was held up. In the end she re-entered our bus.
Question: I am perplexed by the need for these two Thai nationals to cross the border this way as the bus was apparently waiting for us patiently. Why were these two individuals crossing the border with additional transports? Apparently, if they crossed in such a manner it would suffice additional payment. This would cost an additional sum of 200 Baht or RM 24.00. The only way individuals cross the border this way, meant they are looking for work in Malaysia and perhaps don't have the required documentation or the documentation is either barred or refusal of entries. Thai nationals can visit Malaysia for a month. However, if their intention are to work then a work visa is required. I don't think Thais can get work visas at any borders and they have to apply work visas at the Malaysian Embassy in Thailand.
It also seemed to me, these Thais are very well versed with the "backdoor" or "blackmarket" systems which we, Malaysians, even do not know about them. Our enforcement authorities must be in cahoots with these individuals because Malaysian authorities can bar these bike runners from accessing into our borders. If these bike runners follow our rules and regulations then there should not be any problem but its the other way around.
According to a witness account (who is a Thai national from Bangkok but works in a Malaysian company based in Bangkok), she deliberated to me that many Thais do this especially if they are in search of work in Malaysia. She revealed to me that she had seen these multiple times since her travels between Malaysia and Thailand for the last 20 years. As for myself, this is the first time I come across such matters, even though I have crossed the border multiple times in the last 5 years.
This sort of cross border trespassing is a liability to our entire security network in the country. Not only will weapons, drugs, and other illegal paraphernalia will come into our country, this will only confirm the existence of foreign assassinations, drug trafficking, human trafficking and labour trafficking. Our borders are seemingly porous enough and allowing these sort of remnants will forever jeopardize Malaysia's image as NOT only a country of human trafficking (which we were once direly labelled by the US State Department) but also a country where we have tough laws but foreigners dictate our policies to our own ills.
More to the point, read this blog on what happened to these Malaysians:
https://cp4ab0115hm3n7.livejournal.com/394.html
More to the point, read this blog on what happened to these Malaysians:
https://cp4ab0115hm3n7.livejournal.com/394.html
Well, just to add the above comment.
ReplyDeleteI have come across myself now why motor bike touts are sufficiently needed. So here's my few cents of worth: -
On Monday, 11th June, 2018, after the memorable trip from Hatyai, I decided to buy a bus ticket with the bus coach company Suasana Edaran Bus driven by a Chinese man and his Malay colleague. Actually, my initial inkling was to travel back by the shuttle train and later catch an Express Train Service (ETS) back to Kuala Lumpur. Apparently, the ETS was fully booked for at least two weeks because of the school public holidays in Malaysia and the Eid 'al Fitr festival (after the Ramadan).
The mid-year public school holidays that began on 8th June and ended on 23rd June reached the climax and the Thai-Malaysian border was clustered with groups of Malaysian tourists and the queues were long and tiresome at Danok ICQS.
The Chinese coach driver, initially, let the Thais alighted the bus even before reaching Danok immigration; somewhere in Danok itself near the 7-11 convenient mart. When the Thais had left the coach, only an elderly Chinese man and myself were left in the coach.
As we reached the Danok ICQS, the Chinese driver became impatient. He advised us to use the motor touts. Initially, I refused, because I did not want to pay additional fees and I knew the cost was either 100 Baht or RM 10.00.
The driver (upon seeing my reluctance) advised that he had a job to do and he cannot wait until God knows when the queues would be cleared. Moreover, I was to meet up with my college buddies and a professor at Summit in Subang Jaya (at 7:00 pm) and I knew that I was rushing for time as well.
As time was neither on my side and fast approaching noon, I decided to comply. The bus driver accelerated and brought us to another part of the immigration just after the vehicle entrance, and stopped just before the alighting bays for checks and inspections. He told us to get out and there are motor touts on the 'other side'.
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ReplyDeleteSo what we did then was we hailed two motor touts that took us to the direction that's entering Thailand! We were supposed to be exiting Thailand but now we were brought to the entrance side of the ICQS of Thailand. Because on the entrance towards Thailand side of the ICQS were almost bare and empty as there weren't many tourists coming into Thailand at that time.
The reason the queues were long was because Malaysians are foreigners, and therefore, Malaysians and other foreigners took time to clear the Thai immigration. As for Thais, they are not required to clear immigration like foreigners. As long as their passports are legitimate and scanned without problems, they are cleared in less than 2 minutes.
However, if they come to the Malaysian side, then like us or any foreigners going into Thailand, clearance is much slower and dreaded, as the authorities will take time verifying the process and the eligibility of the foreigners. So a reason why the Thais use motor touts as well, not because of their clearance in Thailand but in Malaysia. If they took too long to clear whether its for reasons, a sufficient fee may suffice or basically, they cleared the lines without (in Malaysia) without hassle and thus could join us all in the bus.
Of course the motor tout will not only bring you to clear one side of the ICQS only, they will ensure that you clear both sides and also acknowledge that you boarded the bus after clearance. Moreover, if any of the Thais went missing somewhere in the immigration process, they would look for them until they were found.
Now, the elderly Chinese man and myself cleared immigration like less than 15 minutes on both sides of the immigration. After we cleared, the coach from the Thai side took another 10 minutes for their arrival.
Now this way of doing immigration was wrong, I mean for myself and that Chinese man. For whatever reasons we had, we broke so many protocols and laws but it seemed the authorities were for it as well both Malaysians and Thais. They do not seem to have the answers as well for such breaches. As long as they could get the lines moving, the jams disappearing, and the arduous exercises of massive screenings, etc., etc., etc., they just let it happened.
Actually, on that day, as well there was an issue for one of the passengers from the bus. Despite all of us managed to clear immigration unorthodoxically quickly, one Thai lady lost both her luggage in the process. We all had to wait for almost an hour to acknowledge the lost luggage and she had no idea or clue how her luggage were lost.
That dilemma is not just a dilemma for the poor woman. Anyone of us could be in such dire straits when we don't follow rules and protocols, especially when most of us can be stressed when crossing borders and being inspected by authorities. Hence, using an inordinate way of clearing immigration and customs was not an ideal way of doing things and it could be messier as well.
The Malaysian Star newspaper carried a report a journalist from China Press (another Malaysian media in Mandarin) who saw and reported that police and enforcement authorities' uniforms are sold at the border town of Danok, Songkhla Province of Thailand. Danok is working distance from the Malaysian border town of Bukit Kayu Hitam, Kedah. As reported above, its the most frequent land border crossings for travellers irrespective of nationality.
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NATION
Wednesday, 25 Jul 2018
A FULL set of Malaysian police uniform and accessories can be bought for just RM500 in the southern Thailand town of Danok, according to a report by China Press.
Police uniform, beret, belt, handcuffs, badge and airgun replicas are easily available in five or six shops that sell daily necessities.
Reflective vests and accessories of the Malaysian Customs Depart-ment and National Anti-Drugs Agency are also sold.
A sales assistant said that most customers were Malaysian policemen as well as business owners who resell the items to the men in blue.
image: https://content.thestar.com.my/smg/settag/name=lotame/tags=
Save for a shop which is said to have a licence and recognised by the Malaysian Government as a seller of police accessories, two other shops did not require customers to show police identification cards when they make a purchase.
Source: The Star
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/07/25/malaysian-police-uniform-sold-in-thai-border-town/#YErZQ3C1a5JGZRuK.99
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Thai cops nab M'sian with 64kg cannabis in Songkhla
ReplyDeleteBernama | Published: 7 Apr 2019, 7:26 pm
A Malaysian was arrested by Thai police for having 64kg of cannabis near the Malaysia-Thailand border on Saturday.
Hatyai deputy police chief Tanawat Sengsui said police acting on a tip-off arrested the 36-year-old fruit truck driver from Penang at a guesthouse in a village in Khuan Lang, Songkhla at 2.30am (local time) on Saturday.
He said police found compressed lumps of marijuana weighing 64kg hidden in a modified compartment of his Malaysian-registered Honda Accord.
“The man admitted he picked up the drugs in Hatyai and planned to smuggle the drugs into Penang the next day. He confessed that he had been hired to smuggle the marijuana into Malaysia via different border checkpoints before he was nabbed,” he told Bernama in Bangkok today.
He added that the man was nabbed into his fifth marijuana delivery job and the suspect tried to bribe the police to release him.
Tanawat said the suspect has no criminal record related to drug offences in Malaysia.
He said the man also admitted that he only smuggled marijuana to Malaysia with 60 to 70 kg per delivery and was paid 30,000 baht for each trip.
Dried marijuana is valued at 10,000 baht per kg in Thailand whereas the price is double or triple in Malaysia.
This is the second case of a Malaysian arrested by Thai police for drugs offences this month.
On April 2, a Malaysian, aged 55, was arrested with a total of 32g of "Ice" in 40 small packets and 11.9g of cannabis in his house in Hatyai.
Thanawat said the man was arrested for drug offences before and he was sentenced to two years jail in Songkhla and released three years ago.
“The suspect sells the drugs for 500 baht and 1,000 baht per packet,” he said.
- Bernama
- Mkini
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/471277
Policeman killed, four injured in Songkhla bombing
ReplyDeleteBernama | Published: 27 May 2019, 10:33 am | Modified: 27 May 2019, 10:33 am
A policeman was killed while four others were injured when a bomb, believed to have been buried underground, exploded when police were carrying out checks behind a railway station in Chana, Songkhla in southern Thailand.
Ninth division police chief lieutenant-general Ronnasin Phusara said the homemade bomb exploded, killing one policeman and injuring three of his colleagues who were on duty during the 6pm incident.
"A woman who was at the scene was also injured. The victims are undergoing treatment at the Chana Hospital,” he said.
He said all the routes to the site of the incident have been closed for further investigation.
"The police are tracking down the group that masterminded the blast,” he said.
In April 2017, a policeman and a four-year-old boy were killed, while 15 others were injured in a bomb explosion at the same railway station.
Meanwhile, in Pattani, president of the Teluk Kapur Administration Council was shot dead on his way home at 11.30pm (local time) yesterday.
Amad Promkeaw, 57, died on the spot. He was the second president of an administrative council to be shot dead within three days.
Last Thursday, the president of the Tha Thong administration council in the Raman District in Yala was shot dead on his way home, after breaking fast with family members elsewhere.
- Bernama
- Mkini
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/477514
Malaysia-Thailand to run 24-hour ICQS operations from midnight
ReplyDeleteBy Azura Abas; June 17, 2019 @ 11:40am
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia and Thailand have agreed to commence a 24-hour operations at Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security (ICQS) Bukit Kayu Hitam and Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) Sadao starting from midnight (June 18).
The Foreign Ministry said this was in an effort to further enhance connectivity, investment and flow of trade between the two countries.
"The 24 hour operations will be conducted for a three-month trial period, involving only cargo and goods movement carried by trucks and heavy vehicles.
"The commencement of the 24 hour operations will be marked by a launching ceremony to be held between late June 17 and early morning of June 18," it said in a statement.
The ministry added that the launching ceremony would be jointly launched by Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya and Chaisiri Anamarn, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand.
Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir and Governor of Songkhla Province Weranaan Pengjun will also be attending the launching ceremony, together with senior officials from the federal and state governments.
The two governments have also agreed to establish an evaluation team to measure the effectiveness of the 24 hour operations during the 3-month trial period, it said.
Malaysia and Thailand have strong bilateral cooperation in various sectors including trade and investment.
Thailand is Malaysia’s fifth largest trading partner. Total bilateral trade between the two countries in 2018 was RM105.36 billion, with border trade alone accounting more than 60 per cent of the total trade.
- NST
https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/06/496899/malaysia-thailand-run-24-hour-icqs-operations-midnight
20 Myanmar nationals detained near Bukit Kayu Hitam
ReplyDeleteBernama | Published: 30 Jun 2019, 1:10 pm
The armed forces yesterday detained 20 undocumented immigrants from Myanmar at a kongsi house behind a petrol station near Bukit Kayu Hitam.
Sixth Brigade commander Mohd Halim Khalid said the arrests were made at 11pm, and involved immigrants aged between 20 and 30, who were believed to have just entered the country through a broken border fence.
"Initially, the Sixth Royal Rangers Regiment, which was carrying out patrolling duty, saw a group of people outside the kongsi house and, shortly after, a blue-coloured Proton Wira car left the house.
"The car was at the house for almost two hours before moving towards Changlun.
"Suspicious of the situation, the patrolling team carried out a raid and detained the 20 illegal immigrants,” he said in a statement today.
Halim said that based on initial investigations, the tekong (human trafficker) involved, believed to be a local, had promised to take the undocumented immigrants from the house to another location.
The undocumented immigrants were believed to have been promised jobs in this country, he said.
"All the undocumented immigrants were later handed over to the Immigration Department in Bukit Kayu Hitam for further action," he added.
- BERNAMA
- Mkini
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/481776#.XRlY0AmZYxU.email
The reason as to why there are 20 Myanmar nationals breaching our borders meant, firstly our borders are unsafe and very porous; secondly, there are traffickers willingly to smuggle them into our country; thirdly, there's a labor demand; and finally, since the Burmese ethnic situation is sill in dire straits, many ethnic Burmese will choose to run to close bordering countries willing to accept them.
DeletePolis dilarang ke pusat hiburan: Abdul Hamid
ReplyDeleteNURULATIQ AHMAD BANDI, MUHAMMAD AFHAM RAMLI | | 2 Julai 2019
KUALA LUMPUR - Ketua Polis Negara, Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador mengeluarkan arahan melarang semua pegawai dan anggota Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) mengunjungi pusat hiburan, judi dan maksiat bagi mengelakkan amalan rasuah.
Abdul Hamid mendedahkan, selain rasuah berbentuk wang tunai, segelintir polis di negara ini didapati leka dengan sogokkan daripada tauke-tauke judi dan pusat hiburan.
"Ada polis yang selalu ditawarkan oleh tauke-tauke pusat hiburan untuk sesi berhibur dengan percuma.
"Ada yang sambut dan anjur majlis hari jadi di pusat hiburan. Anggota polis, bayangkan! buruk ke tidak? Anggota polis meraikan hari jadi dalam premis hiburan secara percuma! Itu adalah rasuah, sehingga ada yang mati dan ada yang ambil dadah," katanya semasa wawancara eksklusif bersama Sinar Harian di Bukit Aman di sini baru-baru ini.
Abdul Hamid berkata, Jabatan Integriti dan Pematuhan Standard (JIPS) telah diberi arahan untuk mereka turun dan memantau bagi menguatkuasakan arahan tersebut.
"Sekiranya tertangkap, mereka ini akan diambil tindakan tatatertib. Sekiranya diyakini ada maklumat mengatakan keberadaan mereka di dalam pusat hiburan untuk berhibur dan ambil dadah dan sebagainya, mereka akan dikenakan proses seperti orang awam dengan ujian air kencing dan ujian darah.
"Saya tidak akan berkompromi dan siasatan akan dibuka. Saya akan ambil tindakan. Saya adil dan saya akan beri peluang untuk mereka kembali sedar tentang tanggungjawab mereka," katanya.
Abdul Hamid menambah, beliau juga telah mengeluarkan arahan kepada semua pegawai dan anggota yang mempunyai hubungan serta kaitan dengan personaliti tertentu yang terlibat dalam kegiatan dadah, judi dan maksiat supaya menghentikan hubungan.
Katanya, arahan spesifik seperti itu sebenarnya telah dikeluarkan lebih kurang 20 tahun dahulu tapi lama kelamaan arahan berkenaan diabaikan.
"Lama-lama arahan tinggal arahan sahaja, tidak pernah dikuatkuasakan. Kalau dikuatkuasakan pun hanya hambar sahaja. Kali ini saya berikan nafas dan mesej baharu yang jelas dan ia berkuat kuasa serta-merta," tegasnya.
- BH
https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/35358/BERITA/Nasional/Polis-dilarang-ke-pusat-hiburan-Abdul-Hamid
© 2018 Hakcipta Terpelihara Kumpulan Karangkraf
The above article written and produced by Berita Harian, confirms my suspicion that the Police now (under Pakatan) are doing utmost to screen out bad apples and those that have hands in corruption, cronyism, nepotism and benefits from the Malaysian private entertainment industries, and that includes prostitution and health centers.
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