Former police chief sues Mega

Tue, 20 Aug 2002, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

JAKARTA: Former city police chief Comr. Gen. (ret.) Sofjan
Jacoeb and 21 other former police officers filed a lawsuit
against current National Police Chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar and
President Megawati Soekarnoputri on Monday.

They filed the suit at the Jakarta State Administrative Court
over a regulation which forced them to retire earlier than they
wanted, their lawyer, M. Rudjito said as quoted by detik.com.

Sofjan, now an instructor at the National Resilience Institute
(Lemhanas), two other high-ranking police officers and 19 middle-
ranking officers, were told to retire at the age of 55. They
protested the decision, issued by Da'i in May, as Law No. 2/2002
on police stipulates that the retirement age is 58 years old, and
can be extended to 60 years old.

Da'i had argued that the law could not take effect for
technical reasons.--JP

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