The Paspor Orang Asing or Paspor Untuk Orang Asing is an alien's passport issued by Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

. It is a two-year, 24-page document issued to persons permanently resident in Indonesia who cannot obtain travel document

Travel document

A travel document is an identity document issued by a government or international treaty organization to facilitate the movement of individuals or small groups of persons across international boundaries...

s from any other country. It is referred to in English variously as "Indonesian Passport for Aliens", "Indonesian Stateless Person Passport", or "Indonesian Stateless Travel Document".

Details

The 1950 Travel Documents Act used the term "Paspor Orang Asing" (POA) and in Article 5 authorised the issuance of POAs to persons dwelling in Indonesia. Article 6 stated that the validity period would only be eight to twelve months and could not be extended, in contrast to ordinary passports which were issued for two years and could be extended twice by that same length of time. The 1959 Travel Documents Act switched to using the term "Paspor Untuk Orang Asing" (PUOA) but gave similar provisions on issuance, and authorised a longer validity period of eighteen months, again non-renewable. Article 34 of the 1992 Immigration Act restricted the issuance of PUOAs to aliens permanently resident in Indonesia, and clarified that a PUOA loses validity if its holder obtains a travel document from another country. 1994 Travel Document Regulations explained that the PUOA is equivalent to the international term "certificate of identity

Certificate of identity

A certificate of identity, sometimes called an alien's passport, is a travel document issued by states to stateless persons residing within their borders and foreign nationals who are unable to obtain a passport from their state of nationality. Some states also issue certificates of identity to...

", and that its period of validity may not be extended. The 2011 Immigration Act makes no provision for the PUOA, only for a travel document in lieu of an alien's passport

Surat Perjalanan Laksana Paspor

A Surat Perjalanan Laksana Paspor is an Indonesian travel document issued to persons who do not have other appropriate travel documents, for the purpose of proceeding to and from Indonesia. There are several categories of SPLPs, covering both Indonesian citizens and non-Indonesian citizens...

.

They were commonly issued to pro-Kuomintang

Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...

 ethnic Chinese residents not born in Indonesia, who were regarded as stateless since by the Indonesian government since they were not covered by the People's Republic of China–Indonesia Dual Nationality Treaty

Sino-Indonesian Dual Nationality Treaty

The Sino-Indonesian Dual Nationality Treaty was a bilateral agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Indonesia on the issue of the dual nationality of Chinese Indonesians. It was signed by Zhou Enlai, Premier and Foreign Minister of China, and Sunario, Foreign Minister...

.

Acceptance

Immigration New Zealand

Immigration New Zealand

Immigration New Zealand or INZ is a part of the Workforce group of the New Zealand Department of Labour. It is responsible for managing the benefits and consequences of immigration to New Zealand.-Visa:...

 states that the PUOA is an acceptable travel document for visa issuance purposes, provided that it is valid for New Zealand and the other countries which the holder will pass through, and has been properly endorsed with an Indonesian re-entry permit

Re-entry permit

Advance parole is an immigration document issued by the United States. It is not a re-entry permit; it is only issued to aliens without permanent residency. Advance Parole is permission for certain aliens, who do not have a valid immigrant visa, to re-enter the United States after traveling abroad...

 valid for at least three months after the expected date of departure from New Zealand. , the Benelux

Benelux

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 countries, Spain

Spain

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, France

France

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, Italy

Italy

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, Lithuania

Lithuania

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, Slovenia

Slovenia

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, and Norway

Norway

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 have explicitly indicated that they do not recognise Indonesian alien's travel documents and will not affix visas to them. Other European Union

European Union

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 countries did not provide the Council of the European Union

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's Visa Working Party with any information on their acceptance. No EU country explicitly indicated their acceptance of them. In April 2010 the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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became the first EU country to explicitly indicate their acceptance of it.