Who Is Listyo Sigit Prabowo, Kabareskrim Who Is Proposed To Be Chief Of Police By Jokowi

Commissioner General Listyo Sigit Prabowo (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Commissioner General Listyo Sigit Prabowo is the head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) who is the sole candidate for National Police chief proposed by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to the House of Representatives (DPR) Wednesday, January 13. Then who is actually Sigit? How is the track record?

Listyo Sigit Prabowo was born in Ambon, Maluku, May 5, 1969. He graduated from the Police Academy in 1991. His experience as a detective began when he served as Head of Unit II of the Tangerang Metro Police Criminal Research Unit in 1993.

At that time, Sigit was still holding the rank of second inspector, as quoted by Tempo magazine. Then, for six years he had no contact with the world of investigation. Until finally he returned to the world of detective when he served as Head of the Duren Sawit Sector Police, East Jakarta, 1999.

While serving as Head of the Duren Sawit Police, Sigit once helped the Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Police Gegana team. They were about to hunt down a bomber at the Plaza Atrium, Senen, Central Jakarta, named Dani.

The bomb exploded on August 1, 2001. At that time, Sigit's men ransacked Dani's rented house in Perumnas Klender. There they found bomb materials and equipment.

Two years later, Sigit served as Head of the Tambora Police, West Jakarta with the rank of commissioner. In 2005 Sigit later became Head of the West Jakarta Police Intelligence and Security Unit. "I got a lot of knowledge about lobbying when I became an intern," said Sigit.

His career stalled when Sigit was appointed adjunct major commissioner. From 2006 to 2009 he served a lot at the National Police Headquarters and Polda Metro Jaya.

His career began to climb when he served as Head of the Pati Police since October 2009. A year later, he became Deputy Head of the Semarang City Police.

According to Sigit, while serving in Pati and Semarang, he began to get acquainted with the kiai. One of them is the former chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council and the Advisory Council of the Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board, Kiai Sahal Mahfudz, who owns a boarding school in Pati.

Sigit then received a promotion to major commissioner when he served as Head of the Surakarta Police in April 2011. At that time, Jokowi was still Mayor of Solo. It was there that Sigit first met Jokowi.

Close to Jokowi

The friendship between Sigit and Jokowi was awakened after the suicide bombing at the Bethel Bible Full Bible Church in Solo, September 25, 2011. "Together, we restore the image of Solo, which was damaged by the bomb," said Sigit.

His friendship with Jokowi continued when Jokowi became president. Because in 2014, Sigit became the president's adjutant.

Sigit said that he was initially offered to be Jokowi's adjutant. He said, the offer appeared when he asked for Jokowi's blessing to attend the staff and high-ranking police school.

The offer was accepted. However, despite being offered directly by Jokowi, Sigit still ran a number of tests. He took the first test with three other mid-level officers, one of whom was Agus Suryonugtoho, who was then Head of the Legal Division of the East Kalimantan Regional Police.

After that, Sigit then underwent a second selection test so that he could become the president's adjutant. He is Jokowi's most senior aide. Because of all the adjutants, he himself was from the 1991 class while the others were from the 1993 class of the TNI.

He pursued a career as Jokowi's adjutant for two years. After that, as summarized from Kompas, Sigit filled a position in the Bhayangkara Corps as the Banten Police Chief from 2016 to 2018. Then he served as Head of the Propam Polri Division in 2018-2019.

On December 6, 2019, then Sigit became the head of Bareskrim as he is now. At that time he replaced the current National Police Chief, Police General Idham Azis, who was then appointed as the number one person in the National Police ranks.

Sigit became the youngest officer to serve as Kabareskrim in the last decade. His predecessors were between 51 and 54 years old at the time they assumed the position.

Revealing the Djoko Tjandra case

There were several events that drew public attention during Listyo's leadership at Bareskrim. For example, during the arrest of the convict, Djoko Tjandra, who was a fugitive for 11 years. Listyo led this arrest.

At that time Listyo revealed that a special team was formed to look for Djoko, so that information about his presence in Malaysia could be detected. "Because it was late afternoon, we went to Malaysia and collaborated with the Malaysian Police. We arrested Djoko Tjandra. This is our commitment," said Listyo when he arrested Djoko last July.

Not only that, Listyo also exposed the practice of bribery related to Djoko Tjandra's escape, which involved the Head of International Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Napoleon Bonaparte and Karo Korwas PPNS Bareskrim Polri Prasetijo Utomo.

But after Napoleon was caught he was "singing" in court. He dragged Listyo Sigit Prabowo and several other names such as Golkar Party official Bambang Soesatyo, as well as the Deputy Chairman of the DPR RI for Political and Security Affairs regarding the removal of the status of red notice Djoko Tjandra.

Achievement

Based on his track record, Listyo Sigit Prabowo's achievements have indeed won the recognition of Deputy Chairman of the People's Representative Council (DPR) Azis Syamsuddin. Even though he is young and considered to have stepped over two of his senior generations to become the National Police Chief, Sigit's achievement has proven to be impressive.

"In terms of achievement, of course, above average, he has already held a position in the Criminal Investigation Unit," said Azis at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, January 13, 2021, as quoted by Tempo.

Azis considers it natural that there are pros and cons related to the appointment of Sigit as a candidate for National Police because of his age and class. He said that this phenomenon had occurred when Tito Karnavian was elected the National Police Chief.

Tito even stepped over the four generations above him. And this does not reduce the capacity and capability of a Tito in organizing the National Police and protecting the community.

Returning to Sigit, during his tenure as Kabareskrim he was passionate about uncovering other major cases. For example, revealing and arresting Maria Pauline Lumowa, who has been a fugitive for 17 years in a bank burglary case worth IDR 1.7 trillion.

In addition, before he succeeded in uncovering the Djoko Tjandra case, Listyo also caused a public commotion by revealing the case of pouring hard water on KPK investigator Novel Baswedan. The case has been pending since April 2017.

Until December 27, 2019, Sigit directly announced the arrest of the two suspected perpetrators of the case. They are, RM and RB, both of whom are members of the police.

Most recently, Bareskrim Polri is handling a case of alleged attack by the FPI Laskar to the police at the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road. In fact, cases of alleged violations of health quarantine that dragged Rizieq Shihab, starting from Petamburan, Central Jakarta, the crowd in Megamendung and Ummi Hospital in Bogor were all taken over by Bareskrim.

Profile

Full name

Commissioner General. Pol. Drs. Listyo Sigit Prabowo, M.Sc.

Call Name

Bite

Date of birth

Ambon, 5 May 1969

Religion

Protestant

Blood group

O

Hobby

Sports, music

Wife

Juliati Sapta Dewi Magdalena

Wealth

Rp8,314 billion (2019)

Profession

Police

Education

Police Academy (1991)

S2 University of Indonesia

Career Journey

Duren Sawit Sector Police Chief, East Jakarta (1999)

Head of Tambora Police (2003)

Head of the Personnel Control Section of the Polda Metro Jaya Personnel Bureau

Chief of Police of the Pati Resort (2009)

Deputy Chief of the Semarang City Police (2010)

Surakarta City Police Chief (2011)

Kasubdit II Dittipidum Bareskrim Polri (2012)

Southeast Sulawesi Regional Police General Criminal Investigation Director (2013)

Adjutant to the President of the Republic of Indonesia (2014)

Head of Banten Regional Police (2016)

Head of the Police Professional and Security Division (2018)

Head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Agency (2019)