PRESIDENT Joko Widodo should not grant the demands of House of Representatives (DPR) members to appoint Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan as deputy national police chief. The president is not obligated to bow to the DPR's demands, even though the parliamentarians indicated it would make it the condition to approve Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti as the new police chief.

The mounting pressure to appoint Budi emerged during a consultation meeting between the presi