| By Andi Abdussalam |
Jakarta, July 21 (ANTARA) - An Islamic organization and the Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) have gone on record saying that fringe organizations should not conduct operations to fight against vices during the fasting month of holy Ramadan. In previous years, certain mass organizations often took the law in their own hands, raiding and vandalizing the properties at night clubs, massage parlors and other night entertainment centers in a bid to weed out vices during the holy month of Ramadan. According to Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the biggest Islamic organization in Indonesia, fighting against such vices during the fasting month is the responsibility of police. "It is the responsibility of the police to do that. There is no merit in Muslims taking over the task from the police. What we can do is to help control, make suggestions and assist police," said Miftachul Akhyar, the chairman of the lawmaking body of NU for East Java here on Saturday. Akhyar, who is the leader of Miftachussunnah Islamic Boarding School, said that operations against such entertainment centers by an Islamic organization would leave the impression that Muslims interfere in the affairs of the law enforcers. "NU will not accept these raids as mistakes, but we will have to see things in the right context. It is not impossible for other parties to use these operations to create provocations in an effort to corner Islam," Akhyar said. The same idea was also raised by the Indonesian Police Watch (IPW). It said that the National Police must have the courage to take firm actions against fringe organizations that raided or conducted vigilante operations against night spots, which operated during the holy Ramadan month. "But police must also have the will to act upon and arrest owners of night spots that operate during the fasting month," said Neta S Pane, the presidium chairman of IPW. If police compromise with mass organizations during the vigilante raids or with nightclub owners, it will make itself the target of public criticism. "IPW avails itself to remind police that vigilante justice, demonstrations and protests conducted at night are against the law. Therefore, the National Police must have the guts to field its mobile brigade and anti-riot forces to stop mass organizations from conducting such sweepings," said Neta. If the mass organizations turn anarchic, police should have no doubts before using rubber bullets, after all, police has resorted to using rubber bullets to disperse student rallies in the past, Neta said. "IPW also asks regional governments to be consistent with and willing to assist police in overcoming potential conflicts and security threats during the fasting month," Neta stressed. He said that before mass organizations take the initiative to launch raids, the public order police (Satpoll PP) should take prior actions and launch operations at locations such as at illegal entertainment centers. "This is because based on the IPW monitoring, about 70 percent of the night spots continue to operate during the fasting month. Although these watering holes are seemingly closed from the front, they still continue their backend operations," Neta said. National Police Chief General Timor Pradopo said his side was ready to take firm actions against mass organizations, which conducted unauthorized raids on night spots or other places in order to fight the social vices, since such operations violated the law. "If they violate the law, they will be acted upon. But we should take a persuasive approach in the first place. In essence the problem must be settled by police but we should also cooperate with the people. During the fasting month, we will cooperate with religious leaders or ulemas," the police chief said in East Java during the launch of an East Java Regional Police program. Therefore, the police chief called on these fringe organizations to not launch unauthorized raids over entertainment centers during the fasting month, which began on Saturday. "I call the attention of all mass organizations to not violate the law," Pradopo said after accompanying President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a function in Jakarta on Tuesday. He said that in order to prevent a raid by a mass organization that threatened to fuel public unrest, police would approach the leaders of mass organizations, including their members. "We will take steps to conduct cordial meetings and discuss what they can and cannot do. We also cooperate with the regional governments and religious leaders," the police chief said. Earlier in Madiun, East Java, police had raided a number of hotels in the city in their efforts to fight vices ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The chief of Sabhara police unit of the city police, Adjunct Commissioner Baru Trisno, revealed here in Madiun on Tuesday. During the operations the police arrested five unwed couples found in the rooms of a few low-cost hotels. "The police have arrested five couples outside wedlock, staying at different hotels such as Hotel Dinar, Hotel Taman Asri and Hotel Taman Indah," he told newsmen. ***1*** |
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ONLY POLICE CAN CONDUCT SWEEPING OVER VICES
Rabu, 16 September 2009
POLICE LAUNCH SWEEPS AGAINST VICE
By Andi Abdussalam
Jakarta, Aug 22 (ANTARA) - Local authorities in different parts of the country are launching operations to clean social vice activities that could defile the on-going holy fasting month of Ramadhan.
Entering the fasting month which this year begins on Saturday, August 22, 2009, security police are launching sweeps against abuse of drugs, alcoholic drinks, prostitution and errant night spots.
Mass organizations were however officially reminded not to conduct vigilante sweeps of night spots during the holy month but report those violating operation hour rules to the authorities.
The Jakarta tourism and culture affairs office issued the warning one day before the start of Ramadhan on Saturday to stave off the vandalism certain mass organizations had committed in the past against night spots they considered to have defiled the holy month by staying open.
"The Jakarta police chief has made it quite clear that unauthorized mass organizations are not permitted to perform supervisory functions," head of the Jakarta tourism and culture office, Arie Budhiman, said Friday.
In various parts of the country, local authorities have launched operations to sweep social vice at hotels and night spots.
Local police in Bantul, Yogyakarta, for example, seized hundreds of bottles of alcoholic drinks.
"We swept through a number of locations and roads in Kasihan sub-district, as well as residential houses suspected to store illegal drinks," Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Bantul's Police, Adjunct Commissioner Edy Sugiharto said on Friday.
He said that police seized 343 bottles of alcoholic drinks of various types and trade marks in Tamantirto area on Thursday. Police have previously confiscated hundreds of bottles of hard drinks from the same location.
Edy Sugiharto said local police would continue to carry out sweeping against hard drinks in order to fight social vice and to maintain order in the region in the current fasting month.
In Gorontalo, Sualwesi, local police destroyed 6,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks to welcome the fasting month of Ramadhan. Lomboto district police chief Senior Adjunct Commissioner Budi Widjanarto said the alcoholic drinks were destroyed as part of the efforts to fight social vice in Gorontalo.
He said that the 6,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks were confiscated during police operations in a number of spots in Gorontalo this year.
The aim of the operation, he said, is to guarantee the stability of the people's security and orderliness in Gorontalo, particulary in the face of the fasting moth. "It is our responsibility to fight and eradicate social vice in this region," Budi Widjanarko said.
In the meantime, in Sidrap district, South Sulawesi, tens of cafe attendants were arrested by local police who launched illegal hard drink operations.
Several others were taken into custody when police found them holding an alcoholic drink party in a motel. Sidrap Police chief Senior Adjunct Commissioner Pondadi SIK said tens of cafe attendants and youth were caught-red handed holding a hard drink party. He said that they were nabbed in an operation to welcome the advent of the holy month of Ramadhan.
"We have previously held a meeting with a number of parties to discuss steps to be taken in the frame work of providing the people with security feeling in the fasting month. After all, a circular on the local authorities' appeal to night spots to close has been distributed," the Sirap district police chief said.
He said that the operation where a number of youths and cafe attendants were nabbed was only the beginning of a series of sweeps the Sirap police would carry out against hard drinks, firecrackers, narcotics and other social vice activities.
Previously, at least nine prostitutes were also arrested in an operation which was directly led by Sidrap district head Rusdi Masse in a number of hotels.
Head of Social Rehabilitation Service Zainal Abidin said the nine prostitutes were now being given guidance. "They are proven to be sex workers but the cafe attendants were not proven to be sex workers so that they were allowed to go home," Zainal Abidin said.
Sweeps at hotels to welcome the fasting month were also carried out by police in Madiun district, East Java. Adjunct Commissioner Sutrisno of the Madiun district police said that his side nabbed five couples suspected to practice cohabitation at a hotel during the operation.
Sutrisono said his side would be conducting operations from August 18, 2009 until September 6, 2008, in order to put in order social vice during the fasting month. The target of the operations included gambling, hard drinks, drug and other immorality deeds.
Meanwhile, tens of students in Malang district, East Java, also called on the regional government to intensify operations against night spots and entertain centers during the fasting month. The students are grouped in the All Malang Campus Proselytizing Council (LDK) organization.
LKD coordinator Muhzar said sweeps against entertainment centers such as cafe, discotheques, message parloers and red-light districts must continue to be made because many of them were still operating in the fasting month.
"I could not understand whey they still operate quietly despite the fact that there has been a decree sent to them to ban operation during the fasting month. That's why operations must continue," Muhzar said.
In Surabaya, hundreds of activists of the Islamic Unity Forum (Forpui) visited a number of red-light districts to warn organizers to close their business in the fasting month.
"It should not happen that the fasting month is defiled with immorality deeds," Muhzar, who was accompanied by Secretary General of the Islamic Liberation Front (FPI) M Choiruddin, said.***4*** (T.A014/A/HAJM/14:40/A/O001) (T.A014/A/A014/A/O001) 22-08-2009
Jakarta, Aug 22 (ANTARA) - Local authorities in different parts of the country are launching operations to clean social vice activities that could defile the on-going holy fasting month of Ramadhan.
Entering the fasting month which this year begins on Saturday, August 22, 2009, security police are launching sweeps against abuse of drugs, alcoholic drinks, prostitution and errant night spots.
Mass organizations were however officially reminded not to conduct vigilante sweeps of night spots during the holy month but report those violating operation hour rules to the authorities.
The Jakarta tourism and culture affairs office issued the warning one day before the start of Ramadhan on Saturday to stave off the vandalism certain mass organizations had committed in the past against night spots they considered to have defiled the holy month by staying open.
"The Jakarta police chief has made it quite clear that unauthorized mass organizations are not permitted to perform supervisory functions," head of the Jakarta tourism and culture office, Arie Budhiman, said Friday.
In various parts of the country, local authorities have launched operations to sweep social vice at hotels and night spots.
Local police in Bantul, Yogyakarta, for example, seized hundreds of bottles of alcoholic drinks.
"We swept through a number of locations and roads in Kasihan sub-district, as well as residential houses suspected to store illegal drinks," Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Bantul's Police, Adjunct Commissioner Edy Sugiharto said on Friday.
He said that police seized 343 bottles of alcoholic drinks of various types and trade marks in Tamantirto area on Thursday. Police have previously confiscated hundreds of bottles of hard drinks from the same location.
Edy Sugiharto said local police would continue to carry out sweeping against hard drinks in order to fight social vice and to maintain order in the region in the current fasting month.
In Gorontalo, Sualwesi, local police destroyed 6,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks to welcome the fasting month of Ramadhan. Lomboto district police chief Senior Adjunct Commissioner Budi Widjanarto said the alcoholic drinks were destroyed as part of the efforts to fight social vice in Gorontalo.
He said that the 6,000 bottles of alcoholic drinks were confiscated during police operations in a number of spots in Gorontalo this year.
The aim of the operation, he said, is to guarantee the stability of the people's security and orderliness in Gorontalo, particulary in the face of the fasting moth. "It is our responsibility to fight and eradicate social vice in this region," Budi Widjanarko said.
In the meantime, in Sidrap district, South Sulawesi, tens of cafe attendants were arrested by local police who launched illegal hard drink operations.
Several others were taken into custody when police found them holding an alcoholic drink party in a motel. Sidrap Police chief Senior Adjunct Commissioner Pondadi SIK said tens of cafe attendants and youth were caught-red handed holding a hard drink party. He said that they were nabbed in an operation to welcome the advent of the holy month of Ramadhan.
"We have previously held a meeting with a number of parties to discuss steps to be taken in the frame work of providing the people with security feeling in the fasting month. After all, a circular on the local authorities' appeal to night spots to close has been distributed," the Sirap district police chief said.
He said that the operation where a number of youths and cafe attendants were nabbed was only the beginning of a series of sweeps the Sirap police would carry out against hard drinks, firecrackers, narcotics and other social vice activities.
Previously, at least nine prostitutes were also arrested in an operation which was directly led by Sidrap district head Rusdi Masse in a number of hotels.
Head of Social Rehabilitation Service Zainal Abidin said the nine prostitutes were now being given guidance. "They are proven to be sex workers but the cafe attendants were not proven to be sex workers so that they were allowed to go home," Zainal Abidin said.
Sweeps at hotels to welcome the fasting month were also carried out by police in Madiun district, East Java. Adjunct Commissioner Sutrisno of the Madiun district police said that his side nabbed five couples suspected to practice cohabitation at a hotel during the operation.
Sutrisono said his side would be conducting operations from August 18, 2009 until September 6, 2008, in order to put in order social vice during the fasting month. The target of the operations included gambling, hard drinks, drug and other immorality deeds.
Meanwhile, tens of students in Malang district, East Java, also called on the regional government to intensify operations against night spots and entertain centers during the fasting month. The students are grouped in the All Malang Campus Proselytizing Council (LDK) organization.
LKD coordinator Muhzar said sweeps against entertainment centers such as cafe, discotheques, message parloers and red-light districts must continue to be made because many of them were still operating in the fasting month.
"I could not understand whey they still operate quietly despite the fact that there has been a decree sent to them to ban operation during the fasting month. That's why operations must continue," Muhzar said.
In Surabaya, hundreds of activists of the Islamic Unity Forum (Forpui) visited a number of red-light districts to warn organizers to close their business in the fasting month.
"It should not happen that the fasting month is defiled with immorality deeds," Muhzar, who was accompanied by Secretary General of the Islamic Liberation Front (FPI) M Choiruddin, said.***4*** (T.A014/A/HAJM/14:40/A/O001) (T.A014/A/A014/A/O001) 22-08-2009
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