Bukittinggi City Government Takes Action On 121 Cases Of Violating Regional Regulations, Majority Of Mesum Actions Followed By Prostitutes

Mayor of Bukittinggi Erman Safar. BETWEEN/Altas Maulana.

BUKITTINGGI - The City Government (Pemkot) of Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, took action against 121 cases of immorality that violated local regional regulations (perda) from January to September 2023. "The Bukittinggi Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) routinely conducts raids to take action against violators of Regional Regulation No. 3 of 2015 concerning peace and public order. The result is 121 cases of immorality that have been prosecuted," said Bukittinggi Mayor Erman Safar in Bukittinggi, quoted from Antara, Monday, October 2. He said hundreds of cases of violations of the regional regulation were dominated by obscene acts that also violated religious norms and local customs. "At least 36 commercial sex workers (PSK), 20 LGBT perpetrators and 69 perverted perpetrators, were arrested by regional law enforcers," he said. He said the majority of the perpetrators who were prosecuted came from outside the city of Bukittinggi, and some even came from outside the province of West Sumatra. "The PSK from outside Bukittinggi is 25 people and the LGBT is 18 people and the perpetrators are 48 people. Meanwhile, from outside West Sumatra it consists of six prostitutes, one LGBT and five perverted perpetrators," he said. He emphasized that Satpol PP officers should continue to carry out routine raids. "Don't selectively choose, eradicate all forms of community disease. Don't let Bukittinggi be the location of immorality, there is no tolerance, whatever the mode must be eradicated," he said.

Head of the Bukittinggi City Civil Service Police Unit, Joni Feri, said that his party carried out raids during the day and night in a number of vulnerable locations to eradicate immoral acts. "There is a new mode of the perpetrators, apart from online transactions, they also do it during the day. We increase supervision of suspicious acts, and also ask residents to participate in reporting them," said Joni.