Central Jakarta Police Chief Ensures Personnel Don't Carry Firearms During Tapera Demonstration Security Today

Illustration of police guarding demonstrations/ Photos: Bitor Ekin P

Central Jakarta Metro Police Chief Kombes Susatyo Purnomo Condro confirmed that all personnel involved in securing the Tapera demonstration (Public Housing Savings) in the Monas area, none of them carried firearms.

"There is no other movement, orders and control of me as Kapamwil. Always act persuasively, not provoked, prioritizing negotiations, services and humanism," said Susatyo, Thursday, June 6.

To anticipate traffic jams, the police will engineer traffic flow but it is situational.

"Traffic engineering will be situational depending on the conditions in the field," he said when confirmed, Thursday, June 6.

If traffic diversion is carried out, he continued, people who will pass around Monas should look for other alternative roads because there will be a Tapera demonstration.

"Anyone who will express their opinion in public, as regulated in the law on conveying the opinion of the rights of every citizen, of course, must pay attention to other public rights, so that the rules in the law on expressing opinions in public, please obey them so that all activities run safely and conducively," he said.

Today, Thursday afternoon, June 6, thousands of workers will hold a demonstration against Tapera (People's Housing Savings) at the State Palace.

The mass group that attended this demonstration came from labor parties and other labor elements, namely the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI).

The mass group of workers who will participate in the demonstration gathered in front of the Jakarta City Hall at around 10:00 WIB, then held a long march to the State Palace.