At the Crossroads of History
Tuesday, March 27, 2001
Antagonism with the military has haunted Indonesia's police ever since independence. Reform has not changed that, yet.
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Indonesia's police have a long history of rivalry with the military, going right back to the first days of independence. In his 1996 book The Armed Forces of Indonesia, military analyst Robert Lowry describes how under Dutch colonial rule the two each had their clear place in society. Just as still happens generally in the West.
During the colonial period, there were two sections within the police. The first was the general police, whose responsi
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