While the driver did not have a valid inter-district travel document, the three in the boot did not have any travel documents.

Hilir Perak police chief ACP Ahmad Adnan Basri said police personnel manning the roadblock in the area told the 36-year-old Perodua Bezza driver to stop for inspection at about 6am.

“The inspection led to the discovery of three Indonesian gardeners aged between 18 and 36 cramped in the boot of the vehicle.

“All the suspects did not have valid documents that allow interstate travel and the three Indonesians did not have valid documents,” he said in a statement here today.

He said preliminary investigations revealed that the car driver was believed to have been paid a total of RM300 to transport the Indonesian men from Sabak Bernam, Selangor to Batu Gajah, Perak for them to find gardening jobs.

He said the driver was remanded for four days while the Indonesians were detained for 14 days for not having valid travel documents.

The case is being investigated under Section 55E and Section 6 (1) (C) of the Immigration Act 1959/63, Section 269 of the Penal Code and Regulation 16 of the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2021.