Pirated VCDs destroyed in Glodok

Pirated VCDs destroyed in Glodok

JAKARTA: The West Jakarta Police burned some 250,000 pirated and pornographic VCDs on a plot of land near the Glodok shopping center on Tuesday.

The Glodok area has been famously known for selling pirated VCDs.

"From the 250,000 VCDs destroyed, over 117,000 of them were pirated," said the West Jakarta Police chief, Sr. Comr. Iwan Ismed.

The VCDs were seized during a month-long raid conducted by the West Jakarta precinct and the Taman Sari subprecinct officers. Over the past 30 days, about 1.6 million pirated and pornographic VCDs were confiscated from two pirated VCD makers in Tangerang and Jakarta.

The United States government has recently put Indonesia on its watch list of violators of intellectual property rights. -- Antara