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View all search resultsYosua murder takes political turn at House
Lawmakers criticize minister for being too open with public, media about criminal case.
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he murder of a police officer, allegedly by his own commanding officer, the head of the National Police’s internal affairs department (Propam), has taken on a political bent, following a House of Representatives meeting on Monday that saw a senior minister branded too indiscreet in regard to the case and a call for the police chief to be suspended.
The high-profile criminal case, which a police watchdog has labeled “the biggest scandal to have emerged in the institution’s history”, has roped in no less than 80 officers in an investigation spanning ethics violations, obstruction of justice and interference in a crime scene.
Public faith in the National Police is believed to have hit a historic low, as the cover-up scandal in the murder of Brig. Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat allegedly at the hands of Insp. Gen. Ferdy Sambo widens into allegations of elite factionalism within the force and institutional complicity in the shadowy underworld of illegal gambling.
According to a set of diagrams circulating widely in the public sphere, Ferdy and a number of high-ranking officers were allegedly involved in a recently disbanded special task force that operated as an illegal online gambling ring.
While the role of the task force was among the biggest of revelations to come out of the murder investigation, The Jakarta Post has not been able to independently verify the contents of the document, and several figures named therein have pleaded innocence or non-complicity.
‘Collective conspiracy’
The accusations have attracted the attention of House lawmakers, who for various reasons are interested in scrutinizing the case. Some insist that police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo should be allowed to continue investigations, while others are intent on suspending him.
