146 tried for violating rules

146 tried for violating rules

JAKARTA (JP): The South Jakarta State Court has convicted 146 people for violating city regulations on sanitation and public order.

Judge Bachtiar Lubis told Antara on Wednesday that 78 of those convicted had breached city regulation No. 5/1988, while the rest had breached city regulation No. 11/1988.

Each of the violators was fined Rp 8,500 ($3.8).

The secretary of South Jakarta mayoralty, Rustam Effendy, who represented Mayor H. Pardjoko at the opening of the trial, said that the mayoralty had caught 2,885 people violating city regulations over the past two years.(bas)