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.