Date of publication: 26-03-2013
Indonesia's national police has been criticized for showing restraint in the examination of an execution-style murder of four prisoners in the Cebongan Penitentiary, Sleman, Yogyakarta during the weekend.
The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) said the police had seemed to be under a tremendous amount of pressure in her research, especially after reports said that the Army Special Forces (Kopassus) have been involved in the murder could.
"This is more about the culture of superiority between the two Corps. Since the national police was a separate entity from the Indonesian army and the police still perceive the army as their older brother, "Commissioner m. Nasser Kompolnas said on Monday.
Early on Saturday, 17 unknown assailants ransacked the Cebongan Penitentiary and shot dead four prisoners accused of murdering a former member of Kopassus.
The prisoners, identified as Henry Angel Sahetapi, Adrianus Candra Yohanes Juan Mambait and Gamalil Yermiayanto Rohi Galaga, Riwuwere, were accused of fatally injuring first Sgt. Heru Santoso in a café in Yogyakarta on March 19.
Speculation is rife that the attack was a planned law of retribution, with accusations that only elite members of the military can be a fast and precise operation.
Eyewitness accounts have said that the whole attack took just 15 minutes. A witness said that one of the attackers served as a time keeper as he kept checking his watch while other members of the Group carried out the killings.
The police were also accused of prior knowledge about a plan to kill the four prisoners and therefore decide to wear to the prison.
Warden of the facility, b. Sukamto Harto, had requested extra security staff of the Yogyakarta police and the local military command, for fear of a repeat of the attack by soldiers on the Ogan Komering Ulu police headquarters in South Sumatra earlier this month.
No such security reinforcements were provided.
As members of the Army (TNI) were involved in the execution-style murder, would be adding to the long list of unresolved violence involving soldiers.
More than 200 members of a gang suspected of motor are members of the army on the basis of their crew cut hair styles and well built bodies, launched in April 2012, a series of attacks in Jakarta that claimed the lives of three people and injured 15 others. Rights watchdog Imparsial reported that only four soldiers responsible for the brutal attacks were detained.
Earlier this month, nearly 100 soldiers from a training center in Baturaja, Ogan Komering Ulu, attacked police offices in the Regency in connection with the killing of a soldier in January. So far, 20 soldiers of the military command 15/76 Field Artillery Battalion (Yon armed) have been named suspects.
National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said that the police have no "psychological barrier" face in investigating the case.
"We only face technical problems, given the fact that the attack was carried out in the night, they donned masks and the perpetrators of the Closed Circuit Television [CCTV got rid] recording," the boy said.
The Yogyakarta police provided details that indicated the attackers may be part of the army.
"The attackers covered their faces, black vests, Black canvas shoes and long boots, and also blue and wore black jeans. She drove in two cars, a black and the other silver. We also found 31 bullet casings, including 19 projectiles, bullet at the crime scene. That his 7.62 mm caliber bullet projectiles, "Yogyakarta police spokeswoman adj. SR. Comr. Anny Pudjiastuti said.
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