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Six Palu municipal councillors were arrested Thursday and charged with gambling. Police arrested the suspects in a hotel room and seized Rp 225,000 (US$25) in cash and playing cards. The councillors are being held for questioning at Palu Police Headquarters. Officers identified the suspects as Yos Sudarso, chairman of the Democrat Party in Palu, Arifin Labanu (Democrat Party), Andi Indra Adil, Paharuddin Sumang and Aswandi (Golkar Party), and Revi Arifin Pasau (National Concern Party). Police were acting on an anonymous tip that a group of city councillors were gambling in a room at the Sentral Hotel in South Palu. Palu Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Atrial initially declined to comment on the arrests, but on Friday said police were investigating the case and that the suspects would not receive any preferential treatment. The chairman of the Golkar Regional Executive Board in Palu, Rusdi Mastura, told The Jakarta Post he had asked police to handle the case as they would any other criminal matter.