Reform and restoration

Reform and restoration

The state of dualism in the National Police leadership has
ended. President Megawati Sukarnoputri -- though still unable to
come up with a new cabinet -- issued a decree restoring Gen.
Suroyo Bimantoro as chief of the National Police. At the same
time it annuls the appointment of Chaeruddin Ismail as acting
chief of police by Gus Dur (President Abdurrahman Wahid). This
was President Megawati's swift reaction to the Supreme Court's
approval of a request for a judgment submitted by a number of
former senior police officers.

Gus Dur carried the grand mission of reform. What Megawati
initiated was restoration -- putting right what was wrong. The
National Police and the military -- as well as Wahid himself --
provide us with a unique lesson. Wahid, who used to be a symbol
of reform and democracy, fell due to the process of democracy and
reform. Wahid created doubts about the act and morality of
reform. The integrity of institutions must be honored. This is
how we must move towards both reform and restoration. For this
reason processes must be honored in our effort to achieve
results.

-- Media Indonesia, Jakarta