Give Money To Beggars In Kudus Given Fines, Satpol PP Performs Supervision

The situation at the intersection of Matahari Kudus after the socialization of the Kudus Regional Regulation 14/2020 regarding the prohibition of giving money to beggars, Monday 5 August 2024. (ANTARA)

The Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP) continues to monitor the rules for giving money to beggars who are sanctioned with fines or imprisonment in Kudus Regency, Central Java (Central Java).

Head of Satpol PP Kudus Regency Kholid Seif said the regulation was following up on the Kudus Regional Regulation (Perda) Number 14/2020 concerning the implementation of public order and public protection.

"Previously, we had deployed a number of officers to socialize Regional Regulation Number 14/2020 to motorists at a number of traffic control lights," said in Kudus, Monday, August 5, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said the regional regulation socialization activities were carried out in a number of locations for beggar activities, including at traffic control lights at the intersections of Peganjaran, Karangmalang, Jetak, DPRD, and Matahari.

According to him, the socialization will continue to be carried out massively, including through social media or other channels in the hope that the public will know of a regional regulation that prohibits giving money or goods in any form to beggars, homeless people, buskers, neglected people and street children and or the like on public roads.

He said the socialization was also related to the prohibition of begging, drowsing, singing, selling hawkers and or the like on public roads.

In addition to informing the existence of a regional regulation prohibiting giving money or goods to beggars on public roads, he said, Satpol PP officers also distributed and installed the prohibition brochures on traffic light poles.

"Currently, the action against beggars or homeless people who receive money is brought to the office for guidance and a statement is made so that they will not repeat their actions," he said.

In the near future, he continued, his party will also hold a coordination meeting with a number of related parties to discuss the implementation of the regional regulation.

According to him, currently only recipients can be dealt with, while the giver must involve many elements, especially to stop passing vehicles when they are proven to give money to beggars.

According to the regulation, he said, residents who are caught giving money to beggars in public places will be subject to fines of up to Rp. 50 million or imprisonment for a maximum of three months.

"With this regulation, it is hoped that people will think again if they violate these rules, because the sanctions are relatively heavy in the form of fines of up to tens of millions or imprisonment," he said.

He said that the implementation of the regional regulation was in order to make the City of Kudus free of homelessness and beggars because it had the potential to disturb the comfort of residents.