Porn star Bonnie Blue will be deported and “black-listed” from entering Indonesia for at least a decade, says Indonesia’s Immigration department head.
At a press conference outside the Ngurah Rai Immigration Office on Thursday, Immigration chief Heru Winarko said Blue and her team had breached their visa privileges.
“They have misused the visa they have to make content in Bali,” Mr Winarko said.
“They will be black-listed from entering Indonesia for at least 10 years (that) could be extended.”
Blue and her three man crew, including Australian comedian Julian Woods, will be deported as soon as the police investigation has been completed, The Daily Telegraph reports.
“Once police has finished with the investigation, after that we will deport them and put them (on) the blacklist,” Mr Winarko said.
During the same conference, Badung Police said that Blue and her three man crew are now facing trial over the purchase of her blue “Bangbus” over its alleged lack of vehicle registration, detikBali reports.
One of the two British men in Blue’s entourage are also accused of not having an international driving licence while driving the open-back vehicle, seen in a slew of videos online, the publication added.
“While in Bali, BB (Bonnie Blue) should have been travelling, but instead she was creating content,” said Badung Police Chief, Arif Batubara.
Arif stated that Blue’s purchase of a blue pickup truck for her content creation could be considered a violation, with the sex worker and the British man Bonnie scheduled to appear in Denpasar District Court over the alleged offence on Friday December 12.
The British sex worker, whose real name is Tia Billinger, was arrested alongside a group of 17 male tourists last week following a raid of a studio in Badung.
Fourteen of the men, all Australians, were released without charge while an investigation into Blue and the other three tourists was launched.
Woods was later confirmed as one of the three blokes being interrogated by Indonesian immigration officials alongside the 26-year-old.
After two days of interviews, Badung Police issued a statement Wednesday to local media in Bali, declaring they “had not found any pornographic elements” during the dramatic raid, detikBali reported.
Officials said everyone quizzed “admitted to being at the studio to participate in the production of the reality show content”.
Officers also disclosed for the first time that the Immigration Team were looking into allegations of residence permit abuse.
“The four suspects are suspected of abusing their residence permits by using their KITAS (an essential document for foreigners staying in Indonesia long-term for work) and tourist visas to work on creating commercial content,” Badung Police’s head of public relations, Aiptu Ni Nyoman Ayu Inastuti, said.
None of the group, who entered the country on tourist visas, has been charged criminally.
Their passports have been confiscated.
Badung Police told detikBali they had found a “private video containing sexual content on the phone of one of the accused” during its investigations.
However, the content was not shared with other parties, so it was deemed not to constitute a crime.
Footage filmed Wednesday showed Blue walking into Bali’s Immigration office in a green crop top and matching shorts with lawyer Edward Pangkahila.
The controversial sex worker, who became a household name when she claimed to have slept with 1057 men in 12 hours at the start of the year, was snapped smiling and looking fresh despite the circumstances.
When asked if she was filming sexually explicit content in Bali, the sexfluencer – who had her Australian visa cancelled in 2024 – offered a cheeky response that directed people to her online platform.
Blue was flanked by two of her British crew, Lennon Isaac Nabiel and Liam Andrew Jackson at the Immigration office, and was also seen with crude Aussie jokester, Woods.
It comes after Badung Police claimed the group were playing a sex game where the “winner would sleep with Bonnie Blue” at the time of the raid.
“When they were raided, they were making collab content about a game, where the winner would sleep with Bonnie Blue,” said Ayu, local Bali news outlet Kumparan News reported Wednesday.
“No pornographic activities or acts have been found in the collaborative content.”
The furore around Blue broke out after she took to the streets of the deeply religious country on a “BangBus” tour for Schoolies.
Blue, who “was released Saturday and is co-operating with authorities and the police”, her spokesperson told news.com.au, had remained on the Indonesian island for the course of the investigation.
If she had been prosecuted and found guilty of the pornographic allegations, Blue had faced up to 15 years imprisonment in Indonesia and fines up to 6 billion rupiah (approximately $541,000), which are the maximum penalties.
Badung Police Chief, Arif Batubara, said action was taken after the public reported the alleged creation of an pornographic video.
Indonesia has strict “morality” laws that ban an array of disrespectful acts, including public nudity and engaging in sexual activities outside of marriage.
One of the individuals who claimed to have ratted out the infamous sex worker said he did it because the local community was in shock at Blue’s Schoolie’s antics.
“Pornography is illegal here, producing pornography is illegal here, working without a proper permit is illegal here, and we don’t want Bonnie Blue’s Gang Bang from Bali being posted and shared around the world. Bali doesn’t need that kind of publicity,” the anonymous individual said.
Badung Police seized Blue’s “bang bus” as part of its investigation, as well as a number of other items, including several cameras, condoms, sexual enhancement pills and USB drives.
It’s not the first time Blue has been kicked out of a country for her controversial Schoolies stunts.
The sex worker was deported alongside Australian sex worker, Annie Knight, from Fiji in November 2024.
The country’s Minister for Immigration, Pio Tikoduadua, described the move at the time as an effort to “safeguard Fiji’s integrity and immigration system”.
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