...Bar the Shouting?
If the government's nomination is accepted by the House of Representatives (DPR), next Friday there will be a new National Chief of Police. Will the Bondowoso case make it difficult for Da'i Bachtiar's success in this regard?
November 27, 2001
A green-covered copy of the Al-Quran lies opened upon Da'i Bachtiar's desk in Jalan M.T. Haryono, East Jakarta. This three-star police general, currently responsible as the Chief of the National Coordinating Board Against Narcotics (BKNN), really does need to give more attention to devout prayer. So far, insyaAllah, it seems his passage to the position of National Chief of Police will only require the symbolically authoritative bang of the DPR hamm...