Hats off to RI Police

Hats off to RI Police

From Koran Tempo

About 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2002, we were surprised to learn
from the television that the police had arrested Imam Samudra,
who was about to board a ferry to Bakauheni port, Lampung, from
Merak in Banten.

It is to be hoped that the interrogation of Iman will be
conducted in a more professional, more objective and more
transparent manner than in previous cases so as to reveal the
real truth. The law enforcement agencies are faced with a great
challenge in that they must punish criminals without fear nor
favor.

The meting out of severe punishment to criminals must not be
considered as a merciless or inhumane act as such severe
punishment is needed to save mankind and humanity.

Whatever the reason is, terror is terror. It is a form of
cruelty that every religion prohibits. Terror has nothing to do
with religion.

Hats off to the police for indefatigably hunting down the
perpetrators of the Bali bomb blasts. This is a great achievement
indeed and is better that what the U.S. police were able to do
after the WTC twin towers were brought down as the perpetrators
of this are still at large.

YUDHADINATA, Depok, West Java