NU Figure Says Police-Prosecutor 'Command Salute' Shows Stronger Ties After Former Jampidsus Named Suspect
A young Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) figure, HRM Khalilur R Abdullah Sahlawiy or Gus Lilur, has assessed that the relationship between the National Police (Polri) and the Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) is growing closer following the corruption case involving former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah.
“The command salute is not a protocol formality but rather the most important political and legal statement of the week, and the people need to read it clearly. There is no confrontation between the prosecutor’s office and the police, no inter-institutional battle. There is no star war. What exists, and what is happening before our eyes, is purely law enforcement,” Gus Lilur said in a written statement on Wednesday, 15 July 2026.
He asserted that Febrie Adriansyah’s career as Jampidsus is over because he is implicated in a corruption case. Gus Lilur assessed that the meeting between National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo and Attorney General ST Burhanuddin was a sign of close friendship. “The institutional leaders are working hard so that the case of one person is not allowed to burn down the common house,” he said.
He continued that an institution is not identical with its officials; the Adhyaksa Corps is not sinful because one of its senior officials is alleged to have sinned, just as the Bhayangkara Corps does not become an enemy of the prosecutor’s office just because its investigators searched the house of a senior prosecutor’s official. “On the contrary, the police who dare to investigate a senior prosecutor’s official, and the prosecutor’s office that is gracious enough to allow its senior official to be investigated and then process him themselves, is a sign that our criminal justice system still has both a sense of shame and a sense of courage,” he said.
He revealed that the public temperature is already readable, namely that the people will not accept anything less than a complete process: detention, an open trial, asset confiscation for the state, and a commensurate punishment if proven guilty. “The command salute of the two legal generals is beautiful, but it will only be meaningful if followed by a more important command salute: a joint command to thoroughly resolve this case to its roots, no matter who is implicated,” he said.
To the Attorney General’s Office and the National Police, he conveyed a message that the people have already seen their command salute. Therefore, prove that the handshake is a grip of justice, not a grip of compromise.