Police seize four trucks of 'raskin'

Police seize four trucks of 'raskin'

BOGOR: Bogor Police arrested on Friday the drivers of four trucks
loaded with rice for the poor (raskin).

The police said they suspected the rice was destined for the
Cipinang market instead of being distributed among poor residents
for a low price as stipulated by a national program that provides
inexpensive rice for the public. At the market, the rice would
have been sold at the normal police, police said.

Bogor Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Bambang Sugeng said on
Monday that the rice loaded onto the trucks, which were stopped
on Jl. Bubulak in Bogor, was supposed to be distributed to 13
villages in Jasinga subdistrict of the Bogor regency.

The four drivers of the trucks, Suminta, 40, Kiki, 38, Yeyen,
50, and another man who has not yet been identified, are in
police custody.

Bambang said that the police were still investigating the case
and were not able yet to say if the four suspects were illegally
transporting the rice.

There have been several reports of rice allocated for the poor
being taken by local officials, however, no cases have been
brought to court.

Separately, Western Bogor Police chief Adj. Comr. Dewo Dewanto
said that the drivers were arrested because they were not
carrying the appropriate documents.

The chairman of the Bogor State Logistics Bureau (Bulog), Asep
Tajudin, told the media that he was surprised to hear of the
alleged theft of the rice.

He said that the rice had been taken from the Bulog storehouse
on Jl. Dramaga in Bogor on Friday and was to be distributed to 13
villages in Jasinga subdistrict.--JP