Pickpockets

Pickpockets

From Suara Karya

I would like to warn people who visit Bandung in West Java to be on the alert, for there may be pickpockets in the crowds. The pickpockets usually operate in the Jl. Dalem Kaum shopping center.

Here, shoppers and pedestrians cannot walk freely because of the many sidewalk vendors blocking most of the pavement. In such a busy place shoppers and pedestrians can lose their concentration and so become easy prey for the pickpockets.

The pickpockets generally work in a group. If one of them succeeds in snatching the wallet of a passer-by, it will immediately be handed over to another member of the group. This person will then hand it over to a third person, and so on. No one can accuse the first pickpocket of taking the wallet and nothing can be done to prove the crime.

ROHADI ANSARI

Bandung, West Java