Kulai district police chief Tok Beng Yeow said the two detainees were identified as Riki Rinaldi, 40, and Samirudin, 36.

Tok said the duo and two other Indonesian nationals were to serve a six-month sentence at Ledang prison after they were found guilty by the Kota Tinggi court for breach of Section 5(2) of the Immigration Act 1959/63.

He said they were arrested by Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) officers for entering the country without valid travel documents and were taken to the court to face the charge.

“At 11.20am yesterday, three MMEA officers were assigned to bring them to Ledang prison to serve the jail sentence.

“During the journey, two of them managed to break the chain that tied them together and opened the rear door of the vehicle before fleeing into an abandoned oil palm plantation at Jalan Felda Inas,” he said in a statement today.