Control, not Abuse

Violence committed by Public Order personnel keeps recurring. The huge budget allocated to them should be used to train them and provide them with better facilities.

January 30, 2007

Once again, Public Order (Tramtib) personnel have been involved in violence. A 14-year-old boy died at the hands of officers while trying his luck as a three-in-one jockey on Jalan Pakubuwono, South Jakarta. Irfan Maulana, the unfortunate youth in question, was beaten after resisting the officers trying to arrest him.

Although the police and the Tramtib Unit insist the youth did not die a violent death, several witnesses saw Irfan being detained a

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