TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The government has started to distribute Social Protection Cards (KPS) to compensate for fuel price increase. Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono handed out the cards to underprivileged people in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, yesterday.

"This card will be used to receive benefits such as rice for the poor (raskin), for the Family Hope Program (PKH), scholarship for the poor program (BSM), and temporary direct cash assistance program (BLSM)," said Agung. The government plans to distribute these cards to 15.5 million extremely poor families, a total of approximately 63 million people, throughout this month through local post offices.

Indonesia

The suspect is suspected to conceal information regarding the whereabouts of another suspect hunted by the Police.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police has arrested UF, also known as Fatih, a terrorist suspected to be involved in the 2011 bombing of the Umar Bin Khattab pesantren (Islamic boarding school) that occurred in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara. Fatih was also suspected to have participated in military training on Mount Biru Tamanjeka in Central Sulawesi. The Specisl Counter-Terrorism Detachment 88 (Densus 88) arrested Fatih in his home on Saturday night. He was known to his neighbors as an imam at the Al-Musabbihin Mosque located in his neighborhood.

National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Ammar said Fatih is also suspected to be hiding information regarding the whereabouts of terrorist Santoso, also known as Abu Wardah, the Poso training leader who is still at large.

Malaysia


KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 ? Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) “Black 505” rally will proceed at Padang Merbok here on June 22, despite the Olympic Council of Malaysia’s (OCM) insistence that it needed the field then for an event the day after, PKR’s Rafizi Ramli said today. The PKR strategy director pointed out that the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) had informed PR that Padang Merbok was only booked from 6pm onwards on June 22, contrary to OCM’s statement yesterday that logistics preparation for the June 23 McDonald’s Olympic Run would start on June 21.

“DBKL told us at the beginning that we can only book up to 6pm because after that, another event will be held at Padang Merbok the next day,” Rafizi told The Malaysian Insider today.

“We can sit down with the Olympic Council to discuss what kind of arrangement is necessary to allow both to proceed smoothly,” he added.

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KUALA LUMPUR, June 12 ? DAP’s Tony Pua said today that he would be “the first to praise the government” if police officers found guilty of misconduct were punished. The DAP publicity chief was responding to Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) chair Datuk Heliliah Mohd Yusof, who questioned yesterday if federal opposition pact Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would “praise any government body despite it being set up with heartfelt sincerity”.

“Let me declare upfront that I will be the first to praise the government if the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) is set up and brings to book all who are guilty of misconduct,” said Pua in a statement today. “However, I’d like to ask the chairperson of EAIC if she actually thinks that the commission has delivered anywhere remotely close to what was promised?” added the Petaling Jaya Utara MP.