STREET CRIME
Vacation for Thugs

The police are launching a “war” on street criminals. Thousands were arrested, but only a small number will go to jail.

November 18, 2008

THE scorching hot day prompted most detention house dwellers in the West Jakarta Police office to stay in their rooms. At Thursday noon last week, not more than five detainees appeared in the hallway, the size of a badminton court, in the police office. In a corner of the court, an officer was shaving the head of a captive with an electric razor. Two others, each with tattooed upper arms, were waiting for their turns. On that day the detainees we

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