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Greater Jakarta: Police reject call to arm shopkeepers with guns
The deputy head of the Indonesian Retailers Association (Aprindo), Satria Hamid Ahmadi, has recently suggested that shopkeepers working at 24-hour convenience stores be equipped with guns, amid the surging number of crimes committed against them
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he deputy head of the Indonesian Retailers Association (Aprindo), Satria Hamid Ahmadi, has recently suggested that shopkeepers working at 24-hour convenience stores be equipped with guns, amid the surging number of crimes committed against them.
The police, however, rejected the idea.
'There's no law that allows shopkeepers to carry a gun,' City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Mohammad Iqbal said on Thursday as quoted by tribunnews.com.
Iqbal said that gun ownership in the country was strictly regulated. 'Even not all police officers are allowed to carry guns,' he said.
