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Prominent Activist Linked to Police Corruption Allegations Brutally Beaten
Jakarta Globe | July 08, 2010

Corruption investigator Tama Satrya Langkun, pictured on the right with his girlfriend, is in a stable condition in hospital after a brutal beating in Jakarta overnight. (Photo sourced from Facebook) Corruption investigator Tama Satrya Langkun, pictured on the right with his girlfriend, is in a stable condition in hospital after a brutal beating in Jakarta overnight. (Photo sourced from Facebook)
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Roland
3:19pm Jul 8, 2010

Sorry, I forgot the word 'never'.

So once again: This is, of course, all just an imagined statement and I know that the police would NEVER, EVER issue a discriminatory statement as this one!

Roland
1:45pm Jul 8, 2010

In an issued statement Jakarta Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said police were investigating but ruled out any link to the police itself, while stopping short of suggesting that Tama Satrya Langkun might has either been the victim of a private feud or even inflicted the wounds himself to get some media coverage on his behalf AND to blame the police force.

However, the spokesman also pointed, once again, explicitly out that the National Police consists only of professionals and law and order is the sole guide in their performance.

In the meantime police will provide a 24/7 protection for Tama Satrya Langkun, and, after he is able to be moved, taken into protective custody to avoid any repetition of a criminal act!

This is, of course, all just an imagined statement and I know that the police would issue a discriminatory statement as this one!

I truly hope, that Mr. Tama Satrya Langkun will be soon well and will not feel too frightened and intimidated to continue his job, people like him are needed!

padt
12:10pm Jul 8, 2010

The Indonesian psyche is fed with irrational and unfounded fears about communism - something that is already dead, in case you haven't noticed.

It is not the ghosts of a defunct communism we need to worry about. It is the very real, very alive Nazism that is stalking this country and turning it into a lawless state run and terrorised by thugs and criminals with the connivance of people of influence.

This country is hemorrhaging.


Salimharko
12:07pm Jul 8, 2010

This is the typical criminal thuggery of the polisi..meant to intimidate and scare away people who dare to expose the crooked polisi establishment. As usual, there will be fake condemnations and condolences and even public statements that the "criminals" will be caught. !..which will not happen or some poor street thugs made to confess they did it. The biggest fraud and corrupt establishment in Indonesia is the Police and 100% of the people have no doubt about it. SBY must act fast before this public monster start to view 'democracy' itself as a threat.

peterR
11:49am Jul 8, 2010

And who will be responsible for investigating this crime?

Do you, Mr President, still maintain your trust in the police upholding law in the country?

Now let us just hear from the police that this, as with the Tempo fire bombing, has nothing to do with them.

This is all getting very sinister.

One of the anticorruption activists at the center of an investigation into the suspiciously large bank accounts belonging to a number of National Police generals was the victim of a brutal attack by unknown assailants overnight.

Tama Satriya Langkun, an investigator with Indonesian Corruption Watch, the nation’s most respected antigraft organization, suffered multiple stab wounds and head injuries during a vicious attack.

He is reportedly in a stable condition and is conscious at the Asri Hospital in Duren Tiga, South Jakarta.

ICW are not available for comment but in a statement said Tama and his friend, Khadafi, from ICW’s South Sulawesi branch, were riding a motorbike when a silver Toyota Avanza and two motorcycles blocked his path at Duren Tiga, Pasar Minggu, at 3:45 a.m.

Four people — described as tall and well-built with accents from “eastern Indonesia” — then attacked, stabbing Tama with a sharp metal object and beating him about the head until he almost lost consciousness.

The passengers of the Avana remained in the vehicle during the attack.

The perpetrators then sped off but returned moments later to return Tama’s motorcycle helmet, which had been removed prior to the beating.

Tama, badly beaten, required 29 stitches to three wounds on his head. His right leg is badly bruised from his ankle to his knee, arms and back.

Tama has been a vocal critic of police. He was one of the activists who reported the bulging bank accounts of a number of police generals to the Corruption Eradication Commission and Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force.

On Tuesday, Jakarta Police were forced to deny that three Molotov cocktails thrown at the offices of Tempo were related to the latest edition of the magazine that provide alleged details of the bank accounts.