Aug. 6, Online
The Jakarta Police said that they would arrest beggars who hit the streets with infants who are not their own and charge them with child exploitation.
“The beggars will undergo legal processing if it is proven that the baby does not belong to him or her,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Baharudin Jafar said on Saturday.
Public order officers are currently cracking down on street beggars and other people deemed “suffering from social welfare problems”.
People from outside Jakarta habitually flood the city to work as beggars during the Ramadhan period, during which more fortunate people frequently hand out alms to the poor. Beggars usually “rent” infants and toddlers to gain more sympathy from those giving alms.
Jafar added that using other people’s infants to beg was a form of child exploitation, which went against the 2002 Law on Child Protection.
Your comments:
This situation is a reflection that the government has failed to eradicate the poverty in this state. It is so ironic. A country that has abundant natural resources is becoming a crippled state. The causal factors are mismanaging, corruption, etc.
Adank
Riau
The real problem is that 200 million people have lost their traditional occupations and the rich ecosystem from which their lives depended on for generations. It is being exploited and destroyed, so they are forced to live “modern” lives, but there are no real jobs and development in the rural areas other than being slaves to private companies backed by the government, so they have no choice but to find jobs in the cities.
You want to solve the so-called “urbanization problem”? Start doing real development in rural areas, and then they won’t have to come to the cities.
Fox
Jakarta
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