2,900 netted in operations

JAKARTA (JP): A total of 2,905 vagrants, beggars, prostitutes and transvestites have been apprehended by public order officers in a series of public discipline operations since July.

Toha Reno, an official at the City Public Order Office, said over the weekend that the 2,905 people were picked up in various parts of the capital.

Some of them were taken to municipal social rehabilitation institutions, where they are being counseled about how to behave properly in society. Other were sent back to their hometowns.

Toha said that of the 2,905 people, 1,904 were apprehended in July, 797 people in August and 204 people in the period between Sept. 1 and 16. (32)