2,900 netted in operations

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)