Security guards for holiday makers<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government will deploy 300 security
\npersonnel to ensure safety and to keep order during the upcoming
\nIdul Fitri holiday next week.<\/p>\n
"The task force functions to protect the public from train
\naccidents, crime and ticket scalpers' misdemeanors," the director
\nfor land and communications, Soejono, told reporters yesterday.<\/p>\n
The security personnel comprising 110 members of the Jakarta
\narea military, 100 military police and 110 neighborhood security
\nofficers and volunteer scouts will be deployed at various train
\nstations throughout Jakarta.<\/p>\n
When asked about violations by bus operators who increase bus
\nticket prices beyond the 25 percent limit, Soejono said that the
\ngovernment will take firm action against them.<\/p>\n
"We'll either reprimand them or invalidate their operating
\npermits," Soejono told reporters.<\/p>\n
Last year, some 80 individual buses from 50 bus companies were
\nin violation of the regulation, he added.<\/p>\n
Soejono urged the public to report this kind of violation by
\nwriting to his office enclosing a copy of the bus ticket or by
\nreporting to security personnel at the site of the violation.<\/p>\n
To enhance its services, the state-owned railway company PJKA
\nhas been offering a 15 percent discount in train fares for those
\ntraveling between Feb. 6 through Feb. 12 and Feb. 29 through Mar.
\n16, PJKA spokesman Bambang Walujodjati told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
A discount of 10 percent is offered to those traveling
\nbeginning today through Feb. 15 and between Feb. 26 and Feb. 28,
\nhe added.<\/p>",
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