Article 504 and 505 of the Criminal Code
Author: H.D.Badrun, SH.MH
(Advocate and Mentor of Medon Jaya News.Com)
When we were eating at a padang house next to the Indramayu Population and Civil Registry Office, east of the Kijang roundabout after photocopying in front of UNWIR, less than an hour later, 3 people came begging in clean clothes.
At another time, when we took the Cirebon-bound bus, we met again with the people who had been begging, returning to their village.
Some got off at the Sekorip intersection and some got off at the Toang Jendil intersection (Tinumpuk).
In fact, articles 504 and 505 of the Criminal Code prohibit begging. However, these provisions do not apply, because they are not part of the routine agenda of APH, Trantib and Pemdes activities.
While the results of begging are greater than the wages of farm laborers.
Begging, according to information, can earn Rp. 150,000 per day. While farm laborers, with hot and muddy weather, only get Rp. 100,000 per day.
If begging goes on for a long time and is allowed by the community and the government, then begging is a job.
In Cakung, East Jakarta, beggars from Indramayu are coordinated, every morning at around 06.00 WIB they are dropped off at a red light. In the afternoon they are picked up by the coordinator.
Curious about the news that has become common knowledge of the people of the capital, that beggars from Indramayu are organized and their boss comes from a village, between M and M.
It is true, when we saw it, the house of the boss of the beggars was no less than the house of a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives, let alone a member of the Indramayu Regency DPRD.
Indramayu, May 18, 2025
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