Jokowi's Viral Prohibition Of Luxury Lifestyle Police In Today's Memory, October 15, 2022

JAKARTA Memories of today, three years ago, October 15, 2022, the speech of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) banned police personnel from living a luxurious lifestyle spread on the official Youtube channel of the Presidential Secretariat. The presence of the video went viral and received support from many parties who highlighted the poor performance of the Police.

Previously, public trust in the National Police fell to the lowest level. This condition was because the people were repeatedly presented with news of the depravity of Polri personnel from the Sambo to Teddy Minahasa cases. The people also asked that the National Police reform be rolled out immediately.

The performance of the National Police in maintaining security and order began to be questioned. The hard image of police with small people, soft to the rulers and the wealthy is the estuary. This condition makes people often question ideally the Police in protecting and serving the community.

The police's bad image increased by the emergence of a large number of members. Take the case of Ferdy Sambo. Sambo is considered the mastermind behind the death of his aide, Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat or Brigadier J on July 8, 2022.

Sambo is considered trying to engineer the story of murder, such as shootings and sexual harassment against Sambo's wife, Putri Candrawathi. The evidence was omitted a lot. However, recently the narrative that Sambo rolled out was not proven.

Sambo gave a pure shooting order to another aide, Richard Total. The incident shocked the whole of the archipelago. The police's image is getting worse again. Sambo's problem has not been resolved, there has also been a problem with other high-ranking police officers, Teddy Minahasa.

Teddy, known as the West Sumatra Police Chief, who is in the process of being transferred to the East Java Police Chief, is considered to control the sale of methamphetamine. The news received attention from the Indonesian people.

The people then demanded that the government carry out Polri reforms. He considered the National Police to be able to set a good example, not show bad things. The goal is to make the police image good again. Vice President Ma'ruf Amin spoke about Polri reform.

"Reverting and strengthening public trust requires professionalism and integrity built from within the National Police institution. Professionalism and integrity must be instilled since the recruitment process of members of the Police. In the context of this internal reform, the role of the leadership of the National Police is very important as determinant of the vision of the National Police's professionalism.

The National Police must at the same time be an example that provides examples and enthusiasm to the ranks of the police throughout Indonesia. Police leaders with integrity, professionalism, and reformists are expected to emerge from graduates of the High Staff and Leadership School (Sespimti) and the Staff and Secondary Leadership School (Sespimmen)," said Ma'ruf Amin as quoted by lamanompas.com, September 21, 2022.

A series of problems that damaged the image of the Police to Jokowi's family. The Indonesian president did not want the image of the Police to get worse. Jokowi immediately gathered all high-ranking police officers at the State Palace on October 14, 2022.

The results of the meeting were only broadcast by the official Youtube account of the Presidential Secretariat on October 15, 2022, and went viral everywhere. Jokowi in his speech saw that the police's performance was in the spotlight, including lifestyle matters. Jokowi also forbade the Police to live a luxurious lifestyle.

The luxurious narrative is considered to be able to bring socio-economic jealousy. He also asked the police to understand the difficult world conditions. Moreover, the community has just been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jokowi's attitude also received appreciation from many parties. Although not a few are also looking forward to Jokowi's other breakthroughs.

"This is what all regional police chiefs, police chiefs, main police officers must know, situations like this must understand, so that they have the same sense of crisis. Be careful with this. Be careful. Therefore, I remind you of lifestyle problems, lifestyle. Don't get into difficult situations, there are social eruptions due to socio-economic jealousy.

"Socio-economic jealousy, be careful. So I remind the police chief, the deputy police chief, whose name is the Kapolda, whose name is all the main officials, high-ranking officers are braking the total lifestyle problems. Don't be arrogant because you feel like you have a good car or a good big motorbike, be careful. Be careful, I remind you carefully," Jokowi said as quoted on the Presidential Secretariat website, October 15, 2022.