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A Farm Full of Police

Monday, March 23, 2026

Police plant corn and help stabilize rice prices. What’s the problem?

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Corn ready for harvest in Cicalengka, Bandung Regency, West Java, August 2016. Tempo/Prima Mulia. tempo : 177927509753.

THE cover title of this week’s edition Police Farm is a wordplay from George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The involvement of the police in corn planting program echoes a familiar Orwellian pattern, where institutions extend beyond their mandate and success is measured as much by narrative as by output.

When inaugurating a free nutritious meal kitchen at the Palmerah Police Station in West Jakarta on February 13, 2026, President Prabowo

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