Under Operation Kurangi, an initiative launched in May by the Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology to regularize undocumented expatriates, biometric data for over 8,000 individuals has been collected.
Responding to a question in Parliament, Minister of Homeland Security Ali Ihusan said that the operation has reached 96 islands, completing the process in 21 of them, and that 8,385 expatriates have had their biometrics recorded so far.