1,670 netted in citizenship operation

1,670 netted in citizenship operation

East Jakarta mayoralty administration announced yesterday that
it netted 1,670 people, including 40 prostitutes, caught
traveling without identification documents during a sweep late
last week.

Suara Pembaruan daily reported that three out of the 1,670
people asked that the mayoralty administration send them to
transmigration areas outside Java because they were tired of
living as poor people in the city.

As for the prostitutes, the mayoralty administration has sent
them to the rehabilitation center in Pondok Bambu, East Jakarta.

Zamris Dahlawis, the head the Mayoralty Population Office,
said that the operation will continue in efforts to rid the
mayoralty's streets of prostitutes.(03)