Mass Organizations’ Political and Business Tentacles

Paramilitary mass organizations are mushrooming as they go in tandem with power, politics, and business. They often clash with one another.

Hussein Abri Dongoran

December 13, 2021

DOZENS of uniformed Pemuda Pancasila (Pancasila Youth/PP) people chased Lieut. Col. Dermawan Karosekali in front of the Parliament building at Senayan, Jakarta, in midday on November 25. The chasers accused this operational chief of Jakarta Police’s Traffic Department of restraining a PP member who was demonstrating.

Dermawan was surrounded, and his assailants attacked him with wooden and steel rods. Luckily, a motorcyclist stopped at the s

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