After Dismissal for Receiving Monthly Payments from Drug Dealer, Former Toraja Narcotics Chief Appeals

Makassar – Two police officers previously assigned to the Narcotics Investigation Unit of North Toraja Police have been formally dismissed without honour following evidence that they accepted money from a drug dealer.

The two officers are Arifandi Efendi, former Head of the Narcotics Investigation Unit at North Toraja Police, and Aiptu Nasrul, former Head of Unit II of the Narcotics Investigation Unit at North Toraja Police.

The decision was announced at a professional ethics hearing of the Indonesian National Police held within the South Sulawesi Police headquarters on Tuesday, 10 March 2026, read by Komisaris Besar Polisi Zulham Effendi, Chairman of the Ethics Tribunal.

Zulham, who also serves as Head of the Professional Conduct and Security Division of South Sulawesi Police, stated that the respondents were found to have violated Article 13 Paragraph 1 of Government Regulation No. 1 of 2003 concerning the Dismissal of Indonesian National Police Members.

“The respondents are deemed to have damaged the institution’s reputation and violated their oath of office,” he stated on Wednesday, 11 March 2026.

Additionally, both were found to have violated several articles in Police Regulation No. 7 of 2022 regarding institutional ethics, personal conduct ethics, and prohibitions on collusion in breaching ethical codes. Based on the facts presented at the hearing, the tribunal imposed two types of penalties: ethical sanctions and administrative sanctions.

“Ethical sanction: the respondents’ conduct is declared reprehensible. Administrative sanction: placement in special confinement for 30 days and the most severe punishment being dismissal without honour from the Indonesian National Police,” he said.

During the ethics hearing, both were found to have received money from a methamphetamine dealer named Evanolya Tandipali, also known as Oliv. The ethics commission discovered financial transfers received by the pair from the drug dealer totalling Rp10 million per week from October to December 2025.

The tribunal also revealed that the total money received by both officers reached Rp110 million. In one instance, Rp8 million was returned in connection with a case involving the release of a suspect.

During the hearing, the ethics commission examined 11 witnesses. They comprised three suspects held at Tana Toraja Police, two suspects at North Toraja Police, four police officers, and one wife of an alleged violator.