Jakarta, May 3 -- The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry has helped repatriate 152 Indonesian citizens who were deported from Saudi Arabia for violating stay permits and employment regulations.

In a statement received in Jakarta on Saturday, the ministry reported that the deportees returned home via Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, on Thursday (May 1).

These Indonesian nationals had been detained at the Syumaisi Immigration Detention Facility in Mecca for working illegally in Saudi Arabia.

The group consisted of 130 women, 13 men, and nine children, most of whom came from provinces with high numbers of Indonesian migrant workers, such as West Java and West Nusa Tenggara.

According to the ministry, the deport...