City to launch pre-festive season order crackdown<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration will launch a crackdown
\non security and order in the city ahead of the Christmas and Idul
\nFitri celebrations, an official said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Toha Reno, head of the city's public order subdivision, told
\nThe Jakarta Post that the operation would have 11 initiatives
\naimed at preventing upheavals in the city over the next five
\nmonths.<\/p>\n
\"The eleven steps include: maintaining security patrols;
\nsupporting the neighborhood security program, especially at
\nnight; controlling and supervising the prices of the nine staple
\nfoods; and controlling the distribution of meat to counter
\nillegal sales during the peak seasons,\" Toha said.<\/p>\n
The other steps are to maintain strict control and supervision
\nof entertainment spots, to crack down on social outcasts who tend
\nto disturb public order and security, to prevent possible fires
\nin the city, to abolish sidewalk vendors who disturb traffic
\nflow, to ensure the food sellers operate in an orderly fashion
\nduring the fasting month, and to maintain the city's cleaning
\nprograms.<\/p>\n
\"These steps will be conducted in continuous operations. The
\nmarket operation, for example, is intended mainly to prevent the
\ntraders from arbitrarily increasing the prices of staple foods,\"
\nToha said.<\/p>\n
\"The operation will also deal with the rising number of
\nvagrants and beggars who entered the city from villages during
\nthe current dry season. They came in throngs because the drought
\nmakes their paddy fields and gardens dry, forcing them to lose
\ntheir regular income.\"<\/p>\n
Toha said that special teams have been set up to run the
\noperations, which will be conducted jointly with related parties
\nand institutions, such as Jakarta Military Command, Jakarta
\nPolice, City Land Transportation Agency and Jakarta Regional
\nEconomic Bureau.<\/p>\n
\"We really want to anticipate all the possibilities that can
\ncause an upheaval in society. That is why many posts have been
\nput on alert to monitor the situation,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The city's assistant of economic and development affairs,
\nPrawoto Danumihardjo, expressed confidence that the prices of
\nrice, beef, buffalo meat, palm oil and red chili will increase by
\nno more than 10 percent in the lead up to the Christmas, New Year
\nand Idul Fitri holidays.<\/p>\n
Prawoto said the price increase reflected the rising demand
\nduring the holidays.<\/p>\n
\"I hope people will not worry too much because we will try to
\nensure the prices do not jump by more than 10 percent,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Prawoto said his office would also ensure that the city was
\nsupplied with enough food.<\/p>\n
Reports from the Jakarta Regional Economic Bureau show that in
\ngeneral the prices of staple foods, as of the third week of this
\nmonth, were relatively stable except for: palm oil which
\nincreased by 24.44 percent; red chili by 10.59 percent; and rice
\nby 7.47 percent.<\/p>\n
Rice supplies were estimated to be enough for 20 months, the
\nreports said.<\/p>\n
The demand for rice in the city reached 2.250 tons per day,
\naccording to the reports. The demand for sugar reached 23,000
\ntons per month and wheat 32,000 tons per month.<\/p>\n
The reports said demand for palm oil was 500 tons daily, while
\nbeef and buffalo meat demand reached 180 tons per day.<\/p>\n
Local demand for chicken was 410 tons daily and chicken eggs
\n425 tons, according to the reports.<\/p>\n
The bureau also predicted that in the lead up to Christmas,
\nthe demand for vegetables, red chili, red onion and fruit would
\nincrease by 10 percent.<\/p>\n
The demand for vegetables will increase to 1,500 tons daily
\ncompared to the usual 1,300 tons, red chili to 45.65 tons daily
\nfrom 41.5 tons, red onion to 62.59 tons daily from 56.9 tons. The
\ndemand for fruit will also increase to 440 tons daily from 400
\ntons. (05\/07)<\/p>",
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