Most hotels lack metal detectors

Most hotels lack metal detectors

BEKASI: Most of the hotels in Bekasi mayoralty and regency
lack metal detectors as a security precaution, leaving them open
for terrorist activities and other crimes.

Bekasi councillor Bambang Darmoko from the Indonesian Military
(TNI)/Police faction said that many of the hotels could become
targets of terrorist attacks.

"Only two hotels in Bekasi have metal detectors. We urge the
other hotels to get metal detectors," Bambang said on Tuesday
without mentioning the names of the two hotels.

He said such security measures were necessary, not only to
prevent direct attacks on those hotels but to prevent criminals
from using such places as staging areas, after police arrested
the possible perpetrators of three recent Jakarta bombings in
Bekasi.

The police took into custody several people and accused them
of being members of the Free Aceh Movement, on Aug. 8 in their
rented houses in Bekasi. -- Antara