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View all search resultsPresident Jokowi has appointed six military officers to strategic posts within the Defense Ministry, including two former members of the infamous Tim Mawar (Rose Team) of the Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus), which was implicated in the notorious forced disappearances of activists in the late 1990s.
The establishment of a reserve component has only reinforced demand for the government to build a professional military institution through the modernization of the national defense system and improvement of personnel welfare.
The MI-17 helicopter owned by the Army went missing on June 28, 2019, at 11:49 a.m. It was carrying 12 people, including the crew, and went missing while flying to Okbibab from Oksibil to deliver supplies to soldiers stationed there.
We hope to rely on the police for our safety, but instead we’ve become rather nervous as police duties and tasks have come to cover almost everything. The National Police has become a super-body with little control from the outside.
The nationwide student protests, some of which descended into riots, were marked by incidents that again expose the rift between the TNI and the National Police. The incidents are only the tip of the iceberg of unresolved issues between the nation’s two armed forces.
Reelected President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has asserted that he would “step on the gas pedal” to complete his political promises to the Indonesian people. The President’s bold statement comes at the right time following recent military developments. #opinion
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