Dumai, Riau, Sept. 3 -- Indonesia's Dumai Naval Base is pursuing a boatman who transported eight Bangladeshi nationals and eight Indonesian migrant workers illegally from Malaysia to Dumai, Riau Province, authorities said.

Dumai Naval Base commander Colonel Agung Nugroho Kusumaji said authorities had identified the boatman and determined he was not from Dumai.

"The boatman is still being pursued. We have identified him, and he is not from Dumai," Agung said in Dumai on Wednesday.

The boatman operated a speedboat carrying 16 people from Malaysia that landed at Purnama Beach in Dumai Barat Subdistrict on Monday (August 31), he said, adding that when officers approached, the passengers and boatman tried to flee by jumping toward the beach...