Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Police Versus KPK: A New Chapter Of Rivalry?

The arrest of Police Inspector General Djoko Susilo, former Chief of Indonesia Police Traffic Management Corps, by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) last December 3rd 2012 has become a new rivalry chapter of both institutions. Ever since the rivalry between The National Police and the KPK emerged three years a go with the idiom of “Gecko versus Crocodile” where crocodile symbolized the INP while gecko symbolized KPK. The arrest of Djoko Susilo may become an indicator of emerging conflict of these two law institutions. A month ago, the National Police recalled their investigators assigned at the KPK. However a few of them refused to report back to the National Police Office and became a polemic getting worse between the KPK and the National Police. Almost in the same time, the KPK wanted to bring another institution to fight against the National Police. The KPK signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the military in term of using Military Detention House to arrest KPK’s high profile suspects, including on of them is high rank police officers. It was a sign that KPK is very serious in investigating corruption in the INP.