A Deterrent for Debtors

Electronic passports are difficult to duplicate. Indonesia will start using them by 2010.

December 12, 2006

THEY had flown from Iran to Jakarta. Miranda alias Vava Sa Baori, Neissi Ahmad, Ghate Honia, Masoeh Ibrahim, and Mohammad Nesni had one objective in Indonesia: making fake passports with someone with the initials AL. They had planned to go to Italy and Spain at the end of September. However, their counterfeit passports were discovered by officials at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, thus ending their adventure. Still, many holders of forged passports have

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