THERE are two fundamental differences between resoluteness and authoritarianism. Firmness is needed in an organization. A leader has the righteven the obligationto use his or her authority to ensure the organization stays on the right path. But authoritarianism must be avoided because it is an abuse of power. National Police (Polri) Chief Badrodin Haiti must be more firm in giving orders, without fearing charges of authoritarianism.

REPORTS of drugs being found in prisons are nothing new. The fact that some drug dealings escape the prison guard's 'watchful' eyes is also not news. We are also not too surprised that some prisons have been turned into places where ecstasy and shabu-shabu (crystal methamphetamine) are processed and produced. But what makes no sense is how the same person, Freddy Budiman, an inmate on death row, is the brains of this dastardly crime.

TO dispel any notion of over-expectations, the critics of the 2015 National Mid-Term Development Plan should take a second look at how the Nawa Cita agenda came into being. This work program containing the nine priorities of the Jokowi-Kalla government is the product of the recent presidential election campaign. Understandably, therefore, the Nawa Cita goals tend to be seen as little more than campaign promises, too high a target to achieve.