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Police Say Crime Is Down, as Are Rights Violations
Bayu Marhaenjati & Farouk Arnas | December 31, 2011

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marko1
10:38am Dec 31, 2011

I just read an other article today that said police were the biggest contributors this year to rights violations.

antifreeze
10:26am Dec 31, 2011

Who was it said that that lies come in three forms: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics?

Serigala-Berbulu-Domba
10:17am Dec 31, 2011

1 crime every 10 minutes or 144 crimes per day in Jakarta. Amazing statistics indeed when one reads of court cases involving for example : a young teen picking up a phone card on the street, a girl accused of stealing Rp20,000 (full amount) from a work colleague and a teenager stealing a policeman's sandals.

Anyone who places any credibility on these crime statistics having any relation with the reality of crime in Jakarta is in all likelihood a fully paid up member of the Flat Earth Society!

DrDez
9:26am Dec 31, 2011

Since my full post was not published here is the abridged version

last year New Zealand recorded 426,000 crimes from a population of 4 million... Jakarta with about 12 million recorded 55,000.... Has NZ 8x more crime than Jakarta despite a third of its population? JK shows about 440 crimes/100000 population. Toronto - a very low crime city recorded almost 7000/100000 pop...

Come on Indonesians Challenge these buggers...


didikarjadi
6:32am Dec 31, 2011

Absolute and total garbage. Pure crap. These figures, even if accurate, which we know full well they are not, mean nothing at all. What about the hundreds of thousands of crimes that are not reported because the public have no trust in our completely corrupt police force. During 2011, in my family alone there have been two house robberies and one severe assault that have gone unreported. It is very well known by everybody, that to report a crime to the police simply invites more trouble and great expense, and makes a victim of people twice.

The Indonesian police are simply a force of sadistic criminals. They hold our nation to ransom and abuse the people, and serve only themselves: Oh! And of course the rich and powerful for a fat fee.

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A crime happens in Jakarta every 10 minutes. That might sound worrying, but the police said on Friday that it was an improvement.

“The ‘crime clock’ slowed by 52 seconds, from 9 minutes 7 seconds in 2010 to 9 minutes 59 seconds in 2011,” Jakarta Police Chief Insp. Gen. Untung S. Rajab said during a year-end review of the police’s performance.

He said the number of criminal offenses reported to the police fell 9.5 percent to 54,799 cases.

Of that figure, the police handled 30,716 cases, including motor vehicle thefts (5,352 cases), burglaries (6,807), drug-related crimes (4,989), extortion (396), gambling (1,019), violent assaults (1,936), rapes (68) and murders (64), he said.

Untung said the number of officers fired from the force more than doubled this year.

“We intend to clean up the country of crime, including those committed by police officers. We fired 79 officers this year, up from 38 last year,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s better to have a small number of good police officers than the other way around. Officers who sell drugs are criminals.”

He said the city police had received 438 public complaints about the conduct of its officers.

The most common complaints included abuse of authority, bribery, drug use, misuse of firearms and violent assault.

In another part of his report, Untung said traffic accidents in the Greater Jakarta area, which also covers Bekasi, Bogor, Depok and Tangerang, dropped by 5 percent to 7,817 cases. Those accidents involved 12,110 vehicles and caused losses of roughly Rp 17.7 billion ($1.9 million), he said.

“The number of people killed on the road fell from 1,048 in 2010 to 984 in 2011. That is a good trend and hopefully the [death toll] figure will continue to decline in 2012,” he said.

Speaking separately, the chief of the National Police, Gen. Timur Pradopo, said 267 officers across the country had been dismissed in 2011.

“That excludes the 12,987 officers who [were sanctioned] for breaching internal rulings. It’s a big number,” he said.

He was speaking in the wake of heavy criticism of the police for their handling of a protest in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara. Officers opened fire on protesters who had occupied a port, killing at least two.

But Timur said the police had not broken any laws in their handling of the incident on Christmas Eve.

“There were no human rights violations by the police in 2011. The violence [shown on TV] didn’t represent the whole picture,” he said. The victims in Bima, he added, were found up to 900 meters from the port.