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TransJakarta Worker Deafened by Furious Cop
Dofa Fasila | January 12, 2012

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didikarjadi
8:49am Jan 18, 2012

NRN - So its not some gun wielding moronic thug that a corrupt and gangster led society allows to be a policeman who are to blame, but Westerners again. I can only hope you are attempting to be ironic in some way.

SirAnthonyKnown-Bender - Yep! Pretty much sums it up.

Securicor UK should investigate this thoroughly, as should the British government. There are obviously payments being made to the Indonesian police to provide private security. I believe this is against Indonesian law.

nonredneck
4:01pm Jan 16, 2012

SirAKB: fantastic analysis again. However balance is required, the majority of people won't be able to function without some sense of hope & purpose to work toward to. Obviously heaven is one good goal to direct one's thoughts & action towards, sadly now the road to reach heaven is mislead by the heads. Point again is each one of us who knows how to dance with the elites should be elite insider to influence change (hopefully some good seed sucessfuly planted before someone send an assasin to shut us off)

SirAnthonyKnown-Bender
11:06am Jan 16, 2012

@TGIF "Does religion really works in this country??"

Yes, it works for those at the top of the food chain as it distracts and divides people, turning their attention away from how the system shafts them every day. It causes people to transfer their attention from the problems of the here and now to the there and then, this world being just a transitory veil of tears to be endured before the everlasting glories of heaven. Don't complain about your lot in life and try and change anything, religion says, as your reward is coming. In fact, in the afterlife, the last will be first and the first in this world will last. This is a system that works very well for the elites who seek to bolster and perpetuate society's iniquities and whose record in matters of adhering to religious rules is coincidentally not very good.

TGIF
10:00am Jan 16, 2012

What's mind boggling in Indonesia is the lack of respect among fellow workers of any rank and position and the job descriptions that they would entail. Ego is best displayed instead of keeping a cool head and using some kind of logic to smooth out differences.

What's the point of praying five times a day and abiding by a religion to acquire a few tricks to be humble and being kind toward one another...Does religion really works in this country?? Obviously without a doubt most respectful Indonesians do have a religion that they profess to follow but why can't some citizens apply the knowledge of human compassion in their daily way of life.


BilboBaggins
10:06am Jan 13, 2012

This officer must be sacked. He is an irresponsible lout and obviously a danger to the public.

The police department must also pay compensation to Rocky of many thousands of dollars.

But this is Indonesia.

A TransJakarta worker ended up in hospital on Thursday after an armed police officer threatened to kill him when he tried to stop the armored security van the officer was escorting from illegally using a bus lane in Central Jakarta.

The head of TransJakarta, M. Akbar, said that the employee, Rocky, tried to stop an armored vehicle belonging to Securicor, a subsidiary of Britain-based Group 4 Securicor, from using the lane as it sped by Hotel Central. Busways are by law reserved for buses and the emergency services.

“Because the Securicor vehicle is not allowed to enter the busway lane [Rocky] stopped it. And then a police officer [escorting the armored car] stepped out furiously. [The police officer] threatened to kill Rocky,” Akbar said.

The police officer then lifted his standard-issue assault rifle and fired a shot into the air next to Rocky’s left ear. The shot burst Rocky’s eardrum and he is now having problems hearing.

Rocky’s peers who were working at the bus stop with him immediately rushed him to a nearby hospital to have his hearing checked.

TransJakarta management, Akbar said, reported the incident to the Jakarta Police’s internal affairs division in the hope that police would bring the officer involved to justice.

Akbar said that authorities had since learned the officer’s identity but have so far refused to divulge his name to the press.

“When our workers try to keep the busway lane clear they are often harassed. It can start from loud honk to being shouted at by car drivers. But this incident is by far the worst because a shot was fired,” he said.

The busway lane is dedicated to buses belonging to TransJakarta and may be used by ambulances and fire trucks in emergency situations like floods or other disasters.

“But there was no emergency when the incident occurred. Securicor cars are not ambulances or fire trucks, so they are not allowed to use that lane,” Akbar said.

He added that TransJakarta would hold a meeting with Jakarta police to try to prevent similar incidents from happening again.