Police seize pirated VCDs

Police seize pirated VCDs

JAKARTA: South Jakarta Police detective chief, Comr.
Mardisyam, led an operation which resulted in the seizure of
thousands of pirated VCDs at Blok M Plaza in South Jakarta, on
Tuesday.

However, it was alleged that an "insider" was suspected to
have leaked the information about the impending raid to many of
the vendors, who in turn left their kiosks vacant during the
raid, Antara reported. No vendors were arrested.

Officials of the Indonesian Recording Industry Association
(Asiri) and Indonesian Video Recording Association (Asirevi)
joined the police force during the operation.

Rully Sofyan of the Asirevi welcomed the police move, saying
that some 20 million illegal VCDs have been sold throughout the
country. Half of those are sold in Jakarta alone. -- JP