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        "id": 1719695,
        "msgid": "prabowo-decides-polri-remains-directly-under-the-president-1778197980",
        "date": "2026-05-05 19:45:49",
        "title": "Prabowo Decides Polri Remains Directly Under the President",
        "author": "",
        "source": "TEMPO_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "President Prabowo Subianto has decided that the Indonesian National Police (Polri) will continue to report directly to the president, rejecting proposals for a new security or police ministry. This stance was announced following discussions with the Commission for Accelerating Police Reform at the Presidential Palace on 5 May 2026, with commission members citing more potential harms than benefits in restructuring the police under a ministry. The decision stems from public outcry over police misconduct during mass demonstrations in August 2025, which resulted in ten deaths, prompting Prabowo to establish the reform commission in October 2025.",
        "content": "<p>President Prabowo Subianto has decided that the Indonesian National\nPolice (Polri) will remain directly under the president, rather than\nunder a ministry. Prabowo expressed this position during a discussion\nwith the Commission for Accelerating Police Reform at the Presidential\nPalace in Jakarta on Tuesday, 5 May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Following the meeting, the Police Reform Commission stated that\nPrabowo does not agree with the idea of establishing a security ministry\nor a police ministry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of Polri remains as it is now; Polri is directly under\nthe president,\u201d said Yusril Ihza Mahendra, a member of the Police Reform\nCommission who also serves as Coordinating Minister for Law, Human\nRights, Immigration, and Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Yusril stated, the government will not form a new ministry\nfor Polri. The government also will not place the police under any\nexisting ministry, such as the Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jimly Asshiddiqie, Chairman of the Police Reform\nCommission, stated that his team did not recommend a ministry to oversee\nPolri. \u201cWe have agreed that we do not propose the establishment of a new\nministry,\u201d Jimly said.<\/p>\n<p>Jimly recounted that the Police Reform Commission also concluded that\na police ministry would bring more negative impacts than positive ones.\n\u201cThe President asked about it earlier, and we explained that our\nconclusion is that there are more harms than benefits, so we won\u2019t\npropose it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Reform Commission completed its recommendations in\nFebruary 2026. However, the commission only met with Prabowo at the\nbeginning of May. The recommendations for improving the police\ninstitution are the result of the Commission\u2019s study over approximately\nthree months.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission for Accelerating Police Reform was established\nfollowing calls for police reform after mass demonstrations at the end\nof August 2025. Various groups assessed that the police had abused their\nauthority in handling the protests.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations resulted in ten deaths, including online\nmotorcycle taxi driver Affan Kurniawan, who was run over by a Polri\nMobile Brigade tactical vehicle on Pejompongan Street, Tanah Abang,\nCentral Jakarta, on Thursday, 28 August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>When meeting with several civil society figures from the Nurani\nBangsa Movement in September 2025, Prabowo expressed his willingness to\nreform Polri. Prabowo then formed the police reform commission one month\nlater.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/prabowo-decides-polri-remains-directly-under-the-president-1778197980",
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