Becak drivers angry, burned two cars<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Some 500 becak (pedicab) drivers and residents
\nwent on a rampage as city public order officials held a
\nsimultaneous becak-free operation in the city's five mayoralties
\non Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n
They turned one official car of the city public order agency
\nand a truck of the city sanitary agency upside down before they
\nset the two vehicles on fire.<\/p>\n
Similar incident happened in Gunung Sahari area in Central
\nJakarta, where angry mob pelted stones to a public minivan.<\/p>\n
No casualties were reported in the incidents.<\/p>\n
A police officer said the incident happened as some pedicab
\ndrivers, who reside on Jl. Karanganyar in Central Jakarta,
\nstrongly opposed and challenged the public order officials who
\nconducted the raid on the nearby Jl. Mangga Besar Raya in West
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
"They were angry because they were prevented from operating
\nalong the Jl. Mangga Besar Raya area," West Jakarta Police
\nprecinct chief Col. Adji Rustam Ramdja.<\/p>\n
He said he deployed some 250 policemen and 50 civilian guards
\nto help secure the operation.<\/p>\n
An official at the Taman Sari police subprecinct said it was
\nnot clear whether the drivers were mad because of the sentence
\nimposed by the Central Jakarta District Court on Urban Poor
\nConsortium (UPC) coordinator Wardah Hadifz's earlier on Tuesday,
\nor they were angry because they had paid levies to the public
\norder officials, but were still raided. (ylt\/edt\/imn)<\/p>",
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