Nurfaizi donates cars, motorbikes

Nurfaizi donates cars, motorbikes

JAKARTA (JP): Insp. Gen. Nurfaizi ended his 10-month term as
the City Police chief on a remarkable note, thanks to a fleet of
22 imported cars and 17 trail bikes he donated to the institution
he had formerly led.

"Pak Nurfaizi bought the vehicles with his own money," Jakarta
Police spokesman Supt. Muhammad Nur Haji Usman told The Jakarta
Post on Saturday.

Nur said the donation, worth about Rp 5 billion, would help
the City Police personnel perform their daily operations.

He added all of the motorbikes had been received by the City
Police. The police had also received three fully imported KIA
Carnival cars.

Nurfaizi officially handed over his post to Brig. Gen. Mulyono
Sulaiman in a ceremony presided over by National Police chief
Gen. Surojo Bimantoro on Saturday.

Nurfaizi has been assigned as the head of the National Police
Training Center and will have his rank promoted to commissioner
general.

Nurfaizi's present is a stark contrast to the low salaries
most of police in the country have repeatedly complained about.

"Police should be well-recruited, well-educated, well-trained,
and well-paid. The last of these requirements is certainly absent
here (in Indonesia)," Nur said on Friday, in response to the
arrest of eight Mobile Brigade officers for alleged motorcycle
theft.

Police also say that the low pay stems from the low budget
allocated for the police.

In May, Nurfaizi asked the city administration to increase the
allocated budget for city police because the Rp 900 million
(US$103,448) annual budget was too small to finance police
operations and activities.

Nurfaizi argued that the City Police should receive a bigger
percentage of the local budget since the police contributed some
Rp 6 billion a day to the city administration's revenue through,
among other things, taxes imposed on motorists applying for
driving licenses, and vehicle registration numbers.

The City Police has around 18,000 personnel.

Governor Sutiyoso ruled out any possibility of granting the
city police additional finance for operational expenditures,
saying that the minimal financial support the police have
received from the city administration should not make them
"lower" the standard of their public services. (jaw)