E. Jakarta to stage migrant raids

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