Jakarta deploys 18,000 police to secure Idul Fitri festival, XINHUA

From: Xinhua (China) | Date: November 4, 2004 | Copyright information

Xinhua (China)
11-04-2004
URL: http://www.xinhua.org
JAKARTA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- Jakarta metropolitan police will dispatch
some 18,000 policemen to secure Islamic festival Idul Fitri, a police spokesman
said on Thursday.
Tjiptono said that the police will be supported by military and some
other security forces from the government institutions. "This figure will
account for some one third of the Jakarta police strength," he ...

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