The administration has begun to conduct annual raids in some districts and subdistricts Thursday, with a view to catching people who have arrived in the city without proper documents.
This time around, officials are not visiting slums, but also boarding houses and apartment buildings in the city.
The raids were held in Central Jakarta, West Jakarta, North Jakarta and South Jakarta.
The raid in West Jakarta resulted in the arrest of 166 people who did not possess valid identity cards or Jakarta-issued identity cards in West Cengkareng subdistrict.
"Eight of them have been released and the remaining 158 will undergo hearings," West Jakarta population and civil registry head Ahmad Fauzi was quoted as saying by news portal tempointeraktif.com.
Raids were also conducted Thursday in apartments in Penjaringan, North Jakarta.
Municipality officials raided three apartment blocks in the area.
Officials accosted 78 people in the raid, of whom 59 people failed to provide valid identity cards. The officials released the others.
In Central Jakarta, officials raided a residential area in North Gunung Sahari subdistrict, Pasarbaru, South Mangga Dua and Karanganyar.
They said the main targets were people renting rooms at boarding houses who do not possess valid identity documentation.
Meanwhile, in South Jakarta, sub-agency officers raided the three subdistricts of Bintaro, Pesanggrahan and Ulujami, located in Pesanggarahan district.
In the raid, 126 people were busted without proper identity card.
Of these, 64 faced a hearing at the subdistrict administration office in Bintaro, while the rest were instructed to appear before the South Jakarta District Court as there was not enough time to process all of the cases at the Bintaro administration office.
Those caught are required to pay fines of between Rp 20,000 (US$2.22) and Rp 25,000.
This year, the city administration is planning to conduct five such raids.
It says it would raid residential areas two times before and three times after the Muslim holiday of Idul Fitri.
Population raids are regularly used by law enforcement agencies to enforce population registration laws and local bylaws on population and civil registration.
A Jakarta-issued identity card is granted to Indonesians from outside Jakarta who work in Jakarta and intend to settle here.
However, an identity card issued in another area is enough for those working in the city but without the intention of remaining a permanent resident here, (ipa)
