Legal certainty and police

Legal certainty and police

From Kompas

The nation's antigraft struggle has achieved little since
being launched eight years ago. Legal certainty has never
materialized and is now even worse than before the reform era.

Security in the New Order era, despite military intervention
and occasional human rights abuses, was able to bring a certain
amount of peace and fairness to society. Now with the police
handling security, a coalition of hoodlums and rich people
benefits at the expense of justice and tranquility.

In my village in Pati, Central Java, for instance, public
officials involved in criminal activities are never brought to
court and their cases are shelved by the local police, despite
the presence of witnesses and evidence.

Such facts reduce public confidence in the police.

KARNO
Pati, Central Java