Officials raid pirating operation

JAKARTA: The director general of intellectual property rights at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Abdul Bari Azed, led a raid on a suspected VCD pirating operation in West Jakarta on Wednesday.

The same company, identified as PT Medialine, was raided by police on Dec. 29. In that first operation, officers confiscated a total of 27,000 pirated VCDs and machines used to copy the VCDs.

Ministry spokesman Ansori said PT Medialine was able to produce 40,000 pirated VCDs a day.

"They have a wide distribution network. That's why we only seized a small number of VCDs in the first operation," he was quoted as saying by Tempointeraktif.com.

The Cengkareng Police have detained several suspects of the case, Ansori said. -- JP