INSPECTOR-General Herman Surjadi Sumawiredja should only have been due to retire from the National Police next May. But, only several days after being removed from his post as East Java Regional Police Chief in mid-February, he submitted a letter of resignation. “I’m now waiting for [my] superior’s approval,” he said in Jakarta on Friday two weeks ago.

Herman said that he does not feel slighted over his replacement. Moreover he has alrea