E. Jakarta to stage migrant raids

JAKARTA: The East Jakarta administration will stage coordinated raids to net new migrants from Dec. 8 through Dec. 15, an official said on Tuesday.

H.R. Sudaryanto, the head of the monitoring and investigation unit at the municipality's population and civil registration office, said that all subdistrict offices in the municipality's 10 districts would be involved in the operation.

"We will check on migrants who don't have Jakarta identity cards. We have given them 14 days to apply for one starting on the seventh day after the Idul Fitri holiday," he explained.

East Jakarta is one of the enclaves of migrants. This year the administration's officers asked to see the identity cards of 2,334 migrants, of whom 646 were fined and sent back home as they didn't have Jakarta identity cards, Sudaryanto said. -- JP