Medan police beef up security

MEDAN, North Sumatra: The terrorist attack in Legian, Bali last weekend has prompted police authorities in Medan to boost security in the country's third biggest city.

Medan Police chief Sr. Comr. Badrodin Haiti said on Friday that 50 percent of police personnel in the city had been deployed to safeguard public places including shopping malls, foreign representative offices, and vital projects.

Badrodin said he had been asked by the local immigration office to watch out for the arrival of 17 foreigners suspected of being connected with security disturbances in the country.

He asserted that the 17 foreigners had not entered the province.

"We are cooperating with the immigration office in monitoring the presence of those foreigners," Badrodin told The Jakarta Post on Friday. --JP