A Ukrainian woman and a Russian man who worked at a hair salon in Canggu have been deported from Bali.
Both could be barred from entering Indonesia for five years. Their visas did not allow this kind of work.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian woman held a remote worker KITAS. On paper, she worked with a foreign cosmetics company, but in reality she had taken a job as a hairdresser at the salon.
The 30-year-old Russian man was living in Bali on a work KITAS but had no connection to his sponsor. He played DJ sets at venues around the island and, for about three months, also worked as a hairdresser at the same salon.
The investigation began after residents reported them. Immigration officials explained that the remote worker KITAS is issued to employees of foreign companies and cannot be used to take a job with a local one. A work visa only allows the holder to fill the specific position it was issued for.
In total, over the past week the Ngurah Rai and Denpasar immigration offices sent 24 foreigners home. Two more, who had overstayed their visas by 120 and 54 days, were placed in a detention centre, where violators are held while their fate is decided.
Malaysian citizens made up the largest group among those deported, with 15 people. They were detained in October at a villa in Dalung, not far from Kerobokan. They had been working for an illegal online lending service targeting clients outside Indonesia.
Seven were deported for overstaying, disturbing public order, and on suspicion of prostitution. Two more are Russian citizens. One was seeing clients at a cosmetology clinic on a short-term visa. The other, who held a remote worker KITAS, was advertising villas on Telegram.
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