Overlapping of duties

Overlapping of duties

From Media Indonesia

Security is a luxury has been the title of a subject talked about in recent publications of numerous mass media. Believe it or not, it is indeed a reality for the majority of Indonesians in several areas. It's tragic, but I don't know which phrase could be best used to describe the current situation. Perhaps it's wrong to compare the current condition to a life in the wilderness, because the law is nothing but a series of words incapable of properly protecting people. Many parties, including those institutions upholding the law and tricky lawyers who can twist words and facts so truth and slyness are hard to discern, take part in this decay of the law. Everybody thinks he has the right to seek justice according to his own version.

Everything has happened like that, but will it last? Of course, we don't expect as such. And remedial attempts are there already, one of which is the police's determination to become a professional civil administration in its task of maintaining domestic security. We do expect that there will be a result from the determination, but to gain professionalism, the police must fully focus their attention on their main duties, i.e. to establish domestic security, a very heavy responsibility. To this end they are expected not to be distracted by side duties, such as traffic problems.

How often have we heard that a lot of manpower is used for performing these side duties, and energy is spent only to minimize or clarify the problems of unofficial fees? Remember, the Ministry of Communications and its relevant sub-institutions are there to handle the traffic problems!

How much manpower could be saved if the "back to basic" policy was observed! Furthermore, manpower could be fully deployed to create security for the public, which is desperately needed for prompt realization. So all the complaints of a shortage of manpower can be solved, and nationally it would be highly efficient as it would slash the overlapping of task implementations.

A. RIYADI

Bekasi, West Java