Rights groups renew the appeal to the reform against the background of the increasing reports about the police brutality - Arhipelago

Human rights organizations ask the Government to implement “immediate” reforms to the police force in response to raising police reports against civilians in recent months.

Usman Hamid, the executive director of Amnesty International Indonesia, stressed that the growing number of violent incidents involving officers should serve as “serious alarm” for the national police to be subjected to a “thorough reform”.

“The police reform must involve systemic changes, not just in revising regulations or improving the training,” he said in a recent statement.

He stressed that continuous violence is fed by a culture of impunity within the police force and that, without real responsibility from the police leadership, efforts to reduce violence will be useless.

“If there is no thorough evaluation of the President, the Chamber of Representatives and the National Police Commission (Kompolnas), these cases will continue to happen,” said Usman.

Wrong arrest

Usman’s statement comes in the conditions in which the police are experiencing Kusyanto’s wrong arrest, 38 years old, Central Java, who said he was detained by five police officers without an arrest warrant while looking for snails on Sunday night.

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