March 7, p1

More than a dozen of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan'€™s subordinates from the National Police Educational Division (Lemdikpol) have received major promotions within the National Police headquarters, with three of them being assigned to strategic positions.

According to a classified telegram, a copy of which was made available to The Jakarta Post on Friday, 62 middle- and high-ranking officers were given approval on Thursday to receive promotions, including 16 officers from Lemdikpol.

Your comments:

Move along: nothing to see here people. It is just business as usual.

Lakota

It is a classic Javanese shadow puppet show!

Hinja

It seems that Budi Gunawan controls everything from behind the curtain.

These promotions and the fact that his case is now handled by the police indicate his strong will to wipe out further investigation into his case.

It was the Army in the past and now it'€™s the police.

I can only hope that any future effort by the public to remove the police'€™s involvement in the government won'€™t cost a similar price as when the Army was removed.

Itbad

It'€™s not a surprise. What would surprise many is where he got his strength from.

How can a man with such a reputation get to be so strong? Who is supporting this guy?

The only way to end this is to smash and break the legs that support him.

What scares me is he has been slotted to become the next police chief come October.

Pauloh

Are there not any reformed and corruption-free police leaders that can save the institution?

Short of disbanding the whole institution and rebuilding it up one brick at a time, would an exchange or the parachuting of some leaders from the Military into the police force work?

Or would things be the same?

Jon Terry

This is dangerous for Jokowi. An impeachment is easy to establish now: just waiting for a solid enough reason.

The waves are gathering momentum. It is dangerous indeed.

Capedeh

I really do not know who '€œthey'€ are. I suppose they were promoted based on '€œto serve and to protect the cronies and the corrupt'€, combined with having a lame duck president. I may be wrong.

Animi

The police are above the law in Indonesia. Police that are completely above the law are a feature of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.

Think of the National Bolivarian Police in Venezuela or the SS in Nazi Germany. The Indonesian police are now almost untouchable, too. What does this tell us?

It suggests that there is a mafia-like conspiracy and collusion between the corrupt parliament and their enforcers, the National Police.

These murky links are rapidly undermining the entire Reformasi project and Indonesian democracy seems pretty much to be a sham, with things dramatically worsening under Jokowi.

Indonesia is well on its way back to authoritarianism.

Lasem Benny

I have said previously: the police will someday rule this country, which is wrong.

Dinero

 Seeing the plans of evil people is a necessary step to create citizen awareness. Then everything is possible. Things will change and for good. But still, it is interesting to see them moving their pawns. This dirty game really bothers me.

It'€™s more and more evident and totally visible. They are playing with total arrogance and without shame.

To calm down, I like to think about the '€œafter'€: after the people fight for their rights, for justice, for an equal share of the resources. I know it will happen.

What is on Earth was given by God to all of us, given to be shared. It was not to be controlled by few greedy bastards.

Let them play, the elite of Indonesia, the elite of the world! Soon the time of people will come.

Sukajadi

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