TNI, police won't be reunited: Susilo

TNI, police won't be reunited: Susilo

JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono denied on Monday
reports that the government would again combine the Indonesia
Military (TNI) and the National Police in an effort to boost the
coordination of the two institutions.

"The President said that he had no intention of merging the
military and the police," said Fadjrul Falaakh, a member of the
National Law Commission (KHN), after a meeting with the President
in Jakarta.

He quoted Susilo as saying that the separation of the two
institutions was part of the country's sweeping reforms marked by
the 1998 downfall of Soeharto.

Earlier last week, Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono was
quoted by national media as saying his office was drafting a law
that would effectively reunite the TNI and police, as a means to
improve coordination in dealing with domestic security. -- JP