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June 5th, 2012 
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Video: Alleged people smuggler in Indonesian custody
(ABC News)
Revelations that people smugglers posed as asylum seekers to get themselves into Australia have sparked an angry backlash in Jakarta.
Captain Emad, also known as Abu Khalid, posed as an asylum seeker to smuggle himself into Australia in 2010.
He was taken into detention on Christmas Island and was given a protection visa and Australian residency on April 20, 2010, only three months after the boat arrived.
Emad and other smugglers passed ASIO security checks and went on to set up lucrative people smuggling deals in Australia.
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Indonesia questions Australia’s commitment
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He now lives just a few kilometres from the Australian Federal Police’s headquarters in Canberra.
Tantowi Yahya, a member of Indonesia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs, says the revelations undermine Australia’s claim to be fighting the smuggling trade.
“Our commitment is to find the mastermind who is behind all this,” he said.
“And we agree with the request from Australian government to be cooperative with them, but then we get the news that the Australian government is giving refugee status to the smugglers.”
It is an embarrassing controversy for Australia, especially given the still patchy Indonesian effort to curtail the people smuggling trade.
Smuggler arrested
For example, the smuggler accused of organising a boat that disappeared at sea with 97 people on board in late 2010 is a repeat offender called Abu Ali Al Kuwaiti.
Abu Ali has served time in Australia for people smuggling and is in custody again after the Indonesian police arrested him in September.
He was caught with a fake Iraqi passport that showed he paid a 2009 visit to Kuala Lumpur, a known hub for the smuggling network including Captain Emad, and then travelled in and out of Indonesia at least half a dozen times over the next year.
But an immigration intelligence source says the Indonesian police could not muster a people smuggling charge and prosecutors would only pursue him over the false passport.
In Australia, on the other hand, Four Corners has found witnesses to his key role in the smuggling operation.
An anonymous refugee told Four Corners he had paid Abu Ali al Kuwaiti $8,000 to travel on the boat that carried Captain Emad to refuge in Australia.
Another, named Yahia al Kazami even visited Abu Ali in detention in Jakarta to press him about the boat that went missing, and found him apparently still running a smuggling operation.
When Abu Ali al Kuwaiti was sentenced in February to 12 months in jail on the passport charge, the prosecutors appealed for a stiffer penalty.
Instead the next panel of judges slashed it to six months, declaring twelve months excessive and inhumane.
It is understood Abu Ali al Kuwaiti was shipped out of immigration detention, back to the prosecutors’ holding cells yesterday. Their final appeal for a stiffer sentence is currently before the Supreme Court in Jakarta.
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refugees,
immigration,
world-politics,
government-and-politics,
indonesia,
australia
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