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Samsul Ramli (1209204113)
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City seeks the beggars’ bosses
The Jakarta Post | Fri, 08/28/2009 11:44 AM | City
The city administration is intensifying raids against seasonal beggars that usually flood the city in Ramadan by seeking the beggars’ bosses.
Governor Fauzi Bowo said Wednesday the administration had conducted raids in the five municipalities due to the recently increasing number of beggars.
“We are focusing the raids against those who organize the beggars, not the beggars themselves. I think it will need some extra efforts,” he said after a meeting to discuss issues arising from Ramadan and the upcoming Idul Fitri holiday.
“The organizers have exploited poor people from outside Jakarta to become beggars here. We are hunting them down and we will take legal action against them.”
He said arresting beggars would be useless as they would return to public places on release.
According to the city’s Social Agency, some 200 beggars were netted during the first two days of Ramadan. They were brought to a social rehabilitation center in Kedoya, West Jakarta, before being sent to their hometowns.
The raids involved officers from the Public Order Agency, the Social Agency and the Population and Civil Registry Agency to check places of origin. The administration also cooperated with municipal and regency administrations where the beggars are usually recruited.
Last year, the city netted 7,000 beggars in raids during Ramadan.
Of these, 5,000 were sent to social rehabilitation centers, 1,100 were sent to their hometowns and 900 were returned to their families in Jakarta.
To deal with criminal activities and traffic accidents during the Idul Fitri holiday, the administration and the police will join forces to enhance security throughout the city.
During the meeting, the two authorities said they would cooperate to ensure the safety of citizens leaving for their hometowns to celebrate Idul Fitri, on Sept. 21 and 22.
City police chief Insp. Gen. Wahyono said some 9,000 officers would be deployed to safeguard the city, including between 7,000 and 8,000 from the police and the rest from the Public Order Agency.
The police will set up 1,003 posts for traffic police and 170 security posts throughout the city, he said.
The police will increase monitoring certain places during the holiday, including fields and mosques where Muslims conduct Idul Fitri prayers, as well as recreational sites visited by holidaymakers.
“We will guard takbiran (crowds of Muslims walking around an area while chanting prayers on the night before Idul Fitri), and places where people do their prayers during Idul Fitri day,” Wahyono said.
Each sub precinct will deploy police officers to safeguard residential areas vacated by those traveling to their hometowns to prevent thefts.
To minimize risk of accidents, travelers are advised not to ride motorcycles to their hometowns, and instead take safer transportation, including buses and trains.
The number of travelers during this year’s holidays are expected to increase by 10 percent from around 2.025 million last year. The Transportation Agency predicts that the peak of the exodus will start six days before Idul Fitri, while the normal seasonal inward migration will be a week later.
“We estimate that the number of incoming migrants will decrease from 120,000 last year since development in rural areas is now better,” Fauzi said.
— JP/Desy Nurhayati

My Comment
I think it's right that the cases of beggars is a serious problems which need be solved by the administration because it can produce many problems such as it disturbs the safety of city and the safety of traffic. So that raiding the beggars is the main focus of the administration to safe the city.
I agree that raiding the beggars is not only preventing the beggars themselves but also it needs to prevent the lead of them or people exploiting them.
We know that now days, especially in Ramadan during feast day there are many people flooding the city as the beggars. It needs the efforts of the administration to net them by cooperating with social agency then they which are netted by the raid are given to social rehabilitation centre to educate.
Beside that the administrations need to introvert themselves in facing this phenomenon. Maybe their action based on available life or less in income. Beside that it caused by the less anticipation of government in facing the improvement of civil migrating every year. It, maybe can be solved by making the new of job vacancy.
The conclusion, the root of causes of this problem are the irresponsible people who only take the profit by exploiting the poor people which have an available of economic.