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