Jakarta Globe:
When dealing with religious conflict in the field, police officers and other law enforcement officials tend to put their beliefs before their uniform, a researcher said on Wednesday.
Gadjah Mada University political analyst Samsu Rizal Panggabean said that several factors explained why field officers were reluctant to take action.
“The first is a problem of identity,” Samsu said in a public discussion titled Police, Civil Society, and Religious Conflicts in Indonesia. “During our interviews with [police] officers in Pandeglang [in Banten], they all said that when it comes to religious conflicts, their own religion comes first, then their uniform.”
Pandeglang includes the Cikeusik subdistrict, the scene of a brutal attack on Ahmadiyah community members last February. Three members of the minority Muslim sect died in the attack, gruesome footage of which was uploaded to YouTube. Read more
Categories: Asia, Indonesia, Law and Religion
The actual attack of course was brutal and terrible. The police response was a disgrace and the Court’s response was an even bigger disgrace…
Can’t these ‘officers’ think in terms of law, order and justice? And of course logic? The Mullahs seem to have a vice-like grip on the entire country!
So cruel was the crime, the attitude of authorities and the final judgment of the court that Indonesian courts have been criticized all over the world for gross injustice and disparity.