National Police Chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri, pictured here recently, is talking tough against corruption within the police's ranks, promising to fire anyone involved in case brokering. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad)
“Reforms of the Indonesian police is a must,” Bambang said in Jakarta. “Police officers who refuse reforms, like those engineering criminal cases, must be thrown into the trash can.”
He added that all police officers need to have a strong commitment to change and no longer engineer criminal cases.
Those that failed to do so and broke the law would be arrested, Bambang said.
The police, considered one of Indonesia’s most corrupt institutions, have proved particularly resistant to reform and remain largely unprofessional, with many officers demanding illegal payments for the most basic of services.
However, after renegade Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji, the National Police’s former chief detective, exposed the involvement of senior police officers in the corruption scandal involving allegedly corrupt tax official Gayus Tambunan, the situation has changed slightly.
Two police investigators, Comr. Arafat Enanie and Adjutant Comr. Sri Sumartini, have already been arrested for their alleged involvement in the Gayus fiscal mafia case, and another five are being questioned.
On April 2, Lampung Police Chief Brig. Gen. Edmon Ilyas, the former head of economic crimes at National Police, was stood down from his post. Edmon was implicated by Susno as being involved in the same case but has not been charged.
Another officer, Brig. Gen. Raja Erizman, who is the current head of economic crimes at National Police, is yet to have any action taken against him despite also being implicated in the Gayus scandal.
Raja has hit back at Susno, leveling counter accusations of corruption, which Susno has denied.
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