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[COMMENTARY] Listyo’s appointment shows how Jokowi wants to run the show
Jokowi prefers loyalty and familiarity even more
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Insp. Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo. (tribunnews.com/Tribun Medan)
L
ike any other leader, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo took into account intelligence, career achievement and a clean track record as mandatory features when selecting a National Police chief.
However, specifically right now, in his second and final term, Jokowi prefers loyalty and familiarity even more.
A dilemma over these personal preferences marked the selection process before Jokowi finally proposed Comr. Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo to the House of Representatives as the sole candidate for the chief of police on Wednesday of last week.
Listyo will replace Gen. Idham Azis, who is retiring. Jokowi signaled his choice of Listyo in early December 2019 when Idham named Listyo the National Police detective chief, a strategic post known as a stepping stone to the top job in the police force.
Idham himself was the detective chief before Jokowi entrusted him with the leadership of the police force. During the little over a year of Listyo’s tenure as detective chief, the police arrested two suspects for the acid attack against Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) senior investigator Novel Baswedan, as well as BNI defrauder Maria Luwoma and Bank Bali graft convict Djoko Tjandra.
That Listyo settled three highprofile cases that previous police chiefs could not is indeed an achievement.
Many, however, predicted that a two-horse race between Listyo and National Police deputy chief Comr. Gen. Gatot Eddy Pramono would mark the succession in the police force.
