Manado, Sept. 19 -- Handling Persons of Philippine Descent (PPDs) in North Sulawesi requires stronger cross-sectoral coordination, an Indonesian immigration official has said.

Speaking at a coordination meeting on PPDs in Manado, North Sulawesi, on Thursday, Agato P. P. Simamora, Assistant Deputy for Immigration Services Strategic Coordination at the Coordinating Ministry for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections, stressed the importance of accelerating solutions to strategic immigration issues.

"We need to strengthen cross-sectoral coordination to accelerate the resolution of various strategic immigration issues, especially concerning the handling of PPDs in North Sulawesi," he said.

He urged the provincial government to f...