Still Dancing to a Military Tune
The court has rejected a pretrial suit by eight middle-ranking police officers. They are also precluded from taking their case to military court. So where exactly should they turn for justice?
September 18, 2001
The recent political changes must have come like a gift from heaven for the chief of the National Police, General Bimantoro. Some time ago, he successfully persuaded the Supreme Court to conduct a judicial review of Presidential Decree Number 77 of 2001, on the post of deputy chief of police. The court in the end annulled the decree. Three days later, President Megawati Sukarnoputri reappointed him as chief of police after he had been fired by th...