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Your comments on the police plan to sue Tempo magazine, alleging its cover illustration is libelous
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Your comments on the police plan to sue Tempo magazine, alleging its cover illustration is libelous.
There may be respected police officers in the National Police, but they are few and far between. I lived in Indonesia for two years and almost everywhere I lived I saw corrupt policemen.
On the streets they stop you for nothing and you have to pay them Rp 20,000 and it is all OK. On the harbor to load a container onto a ship you also have to pay police officers.
Everywhere in Indonesia you find them, but the real problem is that Indonesians already know this and act like paying bribes to policeman is a normal procedure.
Marcio
Rome
It is just like the New Order era. Freedom of expression is still restricted in Indonesia.
In line with the police anniversary, police should improve the quality of their personnel.
Iwan Nurdi
Jakarta
Police: Those pigs are an insult!
Tempo: They only depict piggybanks, really.
Police: But in this country, the ceramic containers kids use to save coins (celengan) are shaped like chickens, so the pigs are baseless and hence insulting!
Tempo: Well, if you want to go down that road, celengan is derived from the word celeng (Javanese for "pig"), anyway.
Writers: So, do we start translating celengan as chickenbank from now on? Or should someone consult the chickens first?
Lawyers: Why isn't any of us representing the chickens already? Or the pigs? Surely they're offended at being symbolized for corruption!
Lynda I.
Jakarta
Relax Tempo. They just want you to issue another front page with the correct animal, crocodiles, because pigs are very honest animals.
Suwito Utomo
Surabaya
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