To Newcomers, City Provides Easiness to Process ID Card

They (beggars) look for money to rent a house, but not to eat. If they do not have food, we accommodate and give food to them three times a day

The city administration provides an ease facility in processing ID card for newcomers who will try their luck in the capital. The service can be provided as long as they intend to work and not ask for mercy on the streets, because it could create slum areas.

Acting Jakarta Governor, Basuki 'Ahok' T Purnama assessed beggars in Jakarta is not looking for money to eat, but to rent a house. It was conveyed when he attended in the breakfasting activity at Sunda Kelapa Mosque, Central Jakarta.

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"They (beggars) look for money to rent a house, but not to eat. If they do not have food, we accommodate and give food to them three times a day," he expressed.

Besides providing Jakarta ID card, he furthered, the newcomers have to contribute in increasing the local revenue (PAD) through the income tax by 20 percent, likewise with housekeeper. Despite they do not pay tax, but they will not stay in illegal buildings due to live in the employer's home.

"Troublesome thing is factory workers, where they cannot able to buy a house and make them live in illegal building. Its pattern must be changed," he stressed.

Hence, city administration will encourage industries in Jakarta to be relocated to outside Jakarta, like Depok, Bekasi, and Banten. "If it is needed, I'll relocate them to Central Java, Majalengka," he stated.