Migrants to have new ID cards

Migrants to have new ID cards

JAKARTA: The Jakarta Population and Civil Registration Agency
will replace temporary ID cards for migrants with the new Migrant
ID cards.

"The new Migrant ID cards will be recorded at the city
administration database on population so that we can easily
monitor where the migrants are residing," said the head of the
agency Sylviana Murni on Thursday.

She said the Migrant ID cards would be valid for one year.

"All requirements will be arranged in the Gubernatorial Decree
after the City Council endorses the new population bylaw," she
said, as reported by the administration official website
beritajakarta.com.

The agency calculated 15,570 migrants in 2003 alone and were
fined for not possessing Jakarta ID cards. The fines netted Rp 88
million (US$10,476), said Padmini, a staffer at the agency.

The city administration has been struggling in curb the
migrants from other areas because the population in the capital
has reached 8.5 million. -- JP