What a sight! It doesn’t take Tom and Jerry to play cat and mouse. It is all about the authority and the people’s business that deteriorates a good view of a city. Beggars are being chased, netted and soon after brought to a social rehabilitation center they are sent to their hometown.


Are you accustomed to seeing this phenomenon in your hometown?

However, they keep returning to public places! Yes, and the number is getting increasing. That is why the intensifying raids are being conducted. It is believed that these seasonal beggars are well organized. They flood the city in Ramadan month, where Muslims are obliged to fast and since the religion recommends the have to give alms to the poor, they take an advantage of it.

Therefore, regarding the beggars’ presence as ‘dirtying’ the city, the city administration is focusing the raids against those who organize the beggars, not the beggars themselves! It has to find the organizers who have exploited poor people from outside Jakarta to become beggars here. Just wait and see. They are being hunted down now and will soon be taken legal action.

To tell the truth, actually this is the classical account of the year!

By the way, can you distinguish the real beggar from the fake one? Ops, sorry, wrong question, on certain circumstances do you have any idea of telling what a beggar really is and why being poor seems like a sin?

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