The Jakarta Post, 12/24/2003 7:27:06 PM
Thousands of police on alert for Christmas
JAKARTA (AFP): Thousands of officers went on alert Wednesday as Christians
prepared to celebrate Christmas.
Almost 166,000 officers, or two-thirds of the entire force, will be deployed nationwide
to safeguard the Christmas and New Year festivities -- more than 22,000 of them in
the capital alone.
About 1,000 soldiers will also be deployed in Jakarta to support police, said a
spokesman for the Jakarta military command, Lt. Col.Apang Sopandi.
"We will provide two battalions of soldiers. They will help police safeguard Christmas
Eve," he said.
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