Former North Toraja Drug Unit Chief Appeals Dismissal from Service
Two former senior police officers from the North Toraja Regional Police (Polres Toraja Utara) have appealed their dismissals after being found guilty of ethical violations. AKP Arifandi Efendi, the former head of the narcotics unit, and Aiptu Nasrul, former head of section II of the narcotics unit, were stripped of their police status following a Police Ethics Commission (KKEP) hearing held on Tuesday, 10 March.
Both officers were dismissed without honour (PTDH) after being found guilty of accepting weekly payments totalling 110 million rupiah from drug trafficker Evanolya Tandipali, also known as Oliv. “The appeal is the right of the alleged violator. We provide time in accordance with Police Regulation Number 7 of 2022 for three days to submit an appeal,” stated Kombes Pol Zulham Effendi, head of the Professional Conduct Division at South Sulawesi Regional Police Command, at the hearing in Makassar.
During the ethics hearing, the police ethics commission proved beyond doubt that both officers engaged in ethical violations by accepting contributions from the drug trafficker. “Ethically, both have been found to have engaged in disgraceful conduct. Administrative penalties include 30 days of special placement (patsus) and dismissal without honour (PTDH),” Zulham explained.
The ethics commission discovered that AKP Arifandi Efendi and Aiptu Nasrul received 10 million rupiah weekly from October through December 2025. Though Arifandi Efendi initially denied involvement, the commission presented evidence of meetings between the officers and the trafficker, identified by initials O and A, at Hotel Rotterdam, including documented money transfers.
The commission found the total amount received by both officers reached 110 million rupiah, of which 8 million rupiah was returned in connection with a suspect release case. During the proceedings, the commission examined 11 witnesses, including three detained suspects from Tana Toraja Regional Police, two from North Toraja Regional Police, four police officers, and one spouse of an alleged violator.
Zulham stated that the officers’ conduct was based purely on personal initiative and was not connected to orders from superiors. “If making the person an informant is acceptable, but then a transactional agreement occurred resulting in an ethics violation,” Zulham noted.