Security during the MPR session

Security during the MPR session

We appeal to all the leaders of political parties and mass organizations, as well as those of other civilian groups, not to send their security units to the upcoming session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR). This is also the stance taken by President Abdurrahman Wahid who, as founder of the National Awakening Party (PKB), has prohibited its Banser and Ansor paramilitary units as well as other organizations belonging to the PKB or the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) from guarding the MPR during its session.

Since we are at present asking the police and the military to reform themselves, restraint on the part of civilians in security matters is called for. Naturally, however, we would like to see the TNI and police perform their duties as well as possible in order that the unity and cohesion of the nation may be preserved. In matters of defense and security, professionalism on the part of the military and the police is what our people demand.

-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta