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City targets couples making out in parks
The Parks and Cemeteries Agency intends to force lovebirds caught in compromising positions in public parks to get married
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The Parks and Cemeteries Agency intends to force lovebirds caught in compromising positions in public parks to get married.
Agency head Nandar Sunandar urged park visitors to refrain from indecent behavior or they would be arrested and forced to marry.
'Three couples were told to get married because they were caught committing obscene acts. We took them to their parents so they could get married soon,' he said as quoted by kompas.com on Tuesday.
Nandar said a number of security officers had been stationed in public parks such as Taman Suropati on Jl. Suropati and Taman Menteng in Menteng, Central Jakarta, and Taman Ayodya in South Jakarta.
He said he expected people living in the vicinity of public parks to keep an eye on the parks to make sure nothing untoward happened between couples.
'All residents are expected to become informants. They can report it [misbehavior] to security officers or directly confront the perpetrators,' he said.
