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 Bali Police will assign about 2000 staff to secure the event of Pengrupukan Ritual a night prior the Nyepi Day will be celebrated on March 7 2008, said by Bali Police Chief Inspector General Paulus Purwoko on the meeting with traditional and religious leaders in Denpasar on February 26.
Chief Purwoko said that as usual the Pengrupukan event will along with ogoh-ogoh (monster-like creatures made of paper, bamboo and some clothes) procession and always triggered a brawl over the two parties of youth.
He said that police will be assigned to secured the event to anticipate the unwanted event and police will also work in conjunction with thousand traditional security personnel to help the police staff. The police will keep vigil at the public spots that have records of years as the place of the youth brawl during the Ogoh-ogoh procession.
However, Bali Police's spokesman Commissioner AS Reniban said that in order to prevent the youth brawls police also had drew a line that forbid a Ogoh-ogoh procession from a village to pass over the demarcation line to other villages. The ogoh-ogoh procession only permitted to be lifted around their own village.
He said that if this rule of the game breached by the bringers of the ogoh-ogoh, the village will be fined by the traditional security personnel.
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