Jakarta Social Department on Friday (9/19) sent home 176 people with social welfare issues (PMKS) netted in the capital city to their hometowns in Java.

We have sent home 88 PMKS to their hometowns in Central Java and 88 others to cities in West Java

“We have sent home 88 PMKS to their hometowns in Central Java and 88 others to cities in West Java. We hope they would build their villages and not return to Jakarta,” stated Head of Jakarta Social Department, Masrokhan, Monday (9/22).

According to Masrokhan, all of the costs spent to send home those PMKS are covered by his department. This activity is a routine done every year because hundreds of PMKS are always roaming around in the city.

In the future, Jakarta Social Department will not give chance for PMKS like vagrants and beggars to do their activities. For that, Social Service, Surveillance, and Control Officers (P3S) are deployed to junctions from morning until evening to dispell PMKS.

“PMKS on pedestrian bridges (JPO) and protocol roads will also be controlled,” asserted Masrokhan.

Based on Jakarta Social Department data, as many as 7,000 PMKS had been netted along this year. Those PMKS consist of psychotics, elderly, disabled people, street kids, transvestites , and 3-in-1 jockeys. They were then accommodated in 27 social institutions in the capital city, such as Tresna Werdha Budi Mulia 1, Bina Insan Bangun Daya 2, Tunas Bangsa, Cipayung, Bina Laras, and Bina Insan Kedoya.