State-owned railway company PT KAI Purwokerto office has
State-owned railway company PT KAI Purwokerto office has
confiscated 1,060 fake tickets from middlemen operating at
Kutoardjo station, about 100 kilometers east of here.
KAI spokesman, Supriyadi, said on Thursday that besides
uncovering the counterfeit tickets, KAI also arrested three
people suspected of being involved in the fraud.
He said the fraud was discovered after counterfeit tickets
were given by passengers to the ticketing staff.
"The investigation was later intensified with the help of
security officers, and over 1,000 tickets were confiscated from
passengers," Supriyadi said.
He said most of the counterfeit tickets were held by economy-
class passengers of the Sawunggalih trains plying the Kutoarjo-
Senen (in Jakarta) route.
Supriyadi said that besides the ticket falsification, the
railway company was also burdened by many illegal passengers.
A number of illegal passengers were caught security officers
from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Police.
Regional officers'
training in S'pore
Public administration civil servants in regional offices
throughout Indonesia will be sent to Singapore to get training on
how to deal with the implementation of regional autonomy, an
official has said in Bandung.
Indonesian Provincial Administrations Association Chairman
Nuriana said in on Thursday the training was expected to give the
civil servants a broad perspective and experience.
Nuriana made the remarks after signing a memorandum of
understanding with the Singapore Institute of Commerce (SIC) here
on Thursday.
Those eligible for the overseas training, expected to start in
November, will be officers of the first and second echelons, he
said. Governors are excluded from this program.
In first phase, the association will send secretaries of the
public administration from 32 provinces throughout the country.
SIC director Kanmappan Chettiar said the training program,
which will lasts seven days, will include governance management,
management system of garbage, immigration management and forest
management.
Yogyakarta police has new chief
Brig. Gen. Y. Wahyu Saronto was installed here on Friday as
new Yogyakarta Police chief replacing Brig. Gen. Saleh Saaf that
will be promoted as two-star post National Police spokesman.
National Police Headquarter Secretary General, Comr. Gen. Yun
Mulyana led the hand over ceremony on behalf of the National
Police Chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro.
Saleh Saaf, born in Kuningan, West Java, on June 5, 1952, had
ever become National Police spokesman before being installed as
Yogyakarta Police chief on February 23, 2001. The National Police
spokesman post was led by a one-star general before the National
Police was separated from Indonesian National Soldier (TNI) in
2000.
Meanwhile, Wahyu Saronto was previously a senior intelligence
officer at the National Police Headquarter from 1999. Born in
Magelang, Central Java, on June 23, 1948, he became police
precinct chief of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan in 1986, and a
planning assistant officer at East Java Police office in 1996.
Yogyakarta's branch of the Indonesian Legal-Aid Institute
(LBH)'s chairman Budi Santoso welcomed Wahyu by reminding him of
some cases unsolved by Yogyakarta police.