On its 65th birthday, the Indonesian police are still not able to show that they work for the people, in particularly not for the powerless ones. Police is not efficiently implementing their role to protect the people. Ideally police should be the force for law and order, justice but this is still far from materialized.
Police brutality is showing clearly since the police was separated from TNI. Several recent cases involve police as perpetrators of crimes that can be categorized as Human Rights violations. Cases include the shooting farmer in Bulukumba, south Sulawesi and Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, the shooting of gold miners in Halmahera, North Maluku, and cases like the beating up of demonstrator in front of the Supreme Court or the cases at the UMI campus in Makasar. These are just a small sample of the cases of police brutality that we know of.
Many of the police undertakings, both poor administration and practice in the field, are harming the people. In the field, police justifies repressive acts and faces criminals that they have already arrested with violence. On example is torture during interrogation. This take place in spite that the government has signed and ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, In Human or Degrading treatment or punishment that prohibits all from of torture under all circumstances.
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