Police vow to secure Jakarta during fasting month<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto
\nThe Jakarta Post
\nJakarta<\/p>\n
Police vowed to tighten security to help secure the capital
\nduring the fasting month of Ramadhan, which starts on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n
\"We will increase our patrols to places that are considered at
\nhigh risk to crime to prevent crime from occurring,\" city police
\nspokesman Sr. Comr. Anton Bachrul Alam announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
Anton said, for example, that police would intensify their
\npatrols to once every half an hour from the regular once every
\ntwo hours.<\/p>\n
He said that some 5,600 police personnel would be deployed to
\nback up the security operation.<\/p>\n
Anton said those police officers would be taken from those in
\ncharge of safeguarding the People's Consultative Assembly's (MPR)
\nAnnual Session.<\/p>\n
The MPR Annual Session ended on Friday.<\/p>\n
The crime rate usually increases during the fasting month as
\nmore people need to survive due to the increasing prices of food
\nand other goods.<\/p>\n
Anton also said that the police had simultaneously launched
\ntwo operations targeting firecrackers, explosives, pornographic
\nVCDs, gambling and drugs. The operations codenamed Sadar Jaya IX
\nand Anti Narcotics (Antik), started on Oct. 25 and will run until
\nDec. 25.<\/p>\n
\"We will raid places in Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi that are
\nsuspected of manufacturing firecrackers,\" he said.<\/p>\n
He did not include Parung, south of Jakarta, as the center of
\nfirecracker production. An accident reportedly took place in a
\nhouse where firecrackers were made on Thursday, injuring the
\nowner's two children.<\/p>\n
The police promised to crack down on all disturbances that
\ncould disrupt the Islamic holy month.<\/p>\n
But, a looming menace might come from radical groups as they
\nplan to conduct raids against entertainment centers that break
\nthe new rulings on closure during Ramadhan.<\/p>\n
The Islam Defenders Front maintained that it would target
\nentertainment centers that serve alcoholic drinks during
\nRamadhan, defying police warnings.<\/p>\n
In a maneuver to bolster security for foreigners in the
\ncapital, the police have pledged to increase the safeguarding of
\nforeign assets, which includes international schools.<\/p>",
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