A History of Violence
Violence is a long-held tradition at the national Police Academy in Semarang. Almost every midnight, outside training hours, junior cadets are subject to all sorts of punishment by their seniors. Many are injured, some ending up paralyzed and discharged from the school.
The perpetrators of the violence have never been seriously sanctioned. The school administrators seem to close their eyes. Here is a report on the poor state of training at the Police Academy, an institution which is supposed to produce guardians of public order and security.
October 5, 2011
FEBYA Achmad Rizky still feels the pain in his left thigh and knee. "Doctors say I'm suffering from trauma in parts of my brain," Rizky, a junior cadet recently discharged from the Police Academy, told Tempo early in September.
Rizky has been physically disabled for the past seven months, a victim of violence by his seniors. Doctors diagnosed his illness as syndromes of ganglia basalis."He's losing control of movements," says Andreas Harry, a neurolog
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