Legal Literacy - In legal and constitutional theory, the police are state apparatuses entrusted with a noble mandate: to protect, nurture, and serve the community. Law Number 2 of 2002 concerning the Indonesian National Police clearly states that the main duties of the police are to maintain public security and order, uphold the law, and provide protection, care, and service to the community. The police are not just uniformed officers, but a symbol of the state's presence among the people.
However, behind the beautiful legal text, reality presents a very different face. The latest tragedy that has been widely reported is that the police hit an online motorcycle taxi driver using an official car. The irony is even more pronounced when we realize that the car was bought from the people's tax money, which was collected with great difficulty. In other words, the people finance state vehicles, but those vehicles end up hurting the people themselves.
This phenomenon is not an isolated event. We still remember the Kanjuruhan tragedy (2022), where the use of tear gas by the police killed more than 130 football supporters a collective wound that has not healed until now. There was also the case of Brigadier J (2022), where the public was shocked by the fact that the police were involved in premeditated murder. Not to mention a series of other events: police shooting civilians in…
A car from the sweat of the people, crushing the blood of the people
Describing the current condition of state apparatus
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