Sutiyoso gives command baton to police during holidays

Sutiyoso gives command baton to police during holidays

Damar Harsanto
The Jakarta Post/Jakarta

Jakarta police will be in charge of coordinating all security
personnel in the city during the Idul Fitri holidays, in a bid to
solidify security arrangements.

"It is up to the Jakarta police chief to decide when and where
to deploy all security officers," Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso said.

The public order officers, firemen and those of the city
health agency will be on duty during the holidays.

Sutiyoso, who also chairs the city authorities, comprising the
police force, the military as well as the city council, said that
the military would also support the police in upholding security
in the city.

City Health Agency spokesperson Zelfino said that her agency
would also deploy health officers at certain places, like bus
stations and railway stations in anticipation of health problems
during the exodus.

"We've also readied some ambulances in several locations
across the capital," she said.

City Public Order Agency head Haryanto Bajuri said that all
6,000 officers in his agency would be on duty during the
holidays. To compensate them for not getting leave like most of
the rest of the city's citizens, they were being paid a holiday
allowance of Rp 300,000 as well as free meals and other daily
allowances, Haryanto said.

He said half of the force would back up the police, while the
rest would continue their routine tasks like clearing slums and
riverbanks of illegal squatters