Sukatani Band Apologizes To Lyrics Of Songs Sentil Police, National Police Chief Sigit: Police Continue To Improve

National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo (ANTARA/Nadia Putri Rahmani)

JAKARTA - National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo opened his voice regarding an apology from the Sukatani band to the Police regarding the lyrics of their song entitled 'Pay Pay Payment' which discussed police officers.

One part of the lyrics to the song is 'to make a driver's license, pay the police, cross the road, pay the police.' Police, according to Sigit, are not anti-critic and accept it as input for evaluation.

"In receiving criticism, of course we have to be relieved and the important thing is that there is improvement, and if there may be something that is not in accordance with the things that have been conveyed, explanations can be given," said National Police Chief Sigit when contacted by media crews in Jakarta, Antara, Friday, February 21.

Criticism is a trigger for his party to improve institutions to be even better.

"In principle, the National Police continues to improve by giving punishment to members who violate and giving rewards to good and outstanding members," he said.

This improvement, he said, was the National Police's commitment to continue to make improvements and evaluations of existing shortcomings.

"Of course it (improvement, ed.) is an effort that we continue to make," he emphasized.

As for the apology from the Sukatani band to the National Police regarding the Pay Pay Payment song, National Police Chief Sigit suspects that there is miscommunication.

"There is no problem. There may be a miss, but it has been straightened out," he said.

It is known that the punk band from Purbalingga, Sukatani, apologized to the police through a video on their social media accounts regarding their song entitled Pay Pay Pay Payment.

In the band's social media upload, two Sukatani band personnel, Muhammad Syifa Al Lufti alias Alectroguy and Novi Citra Indriyati alias Twister Angel, apologized to the National Police Chief General Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo and Polri for the lyrics of the song Pay Pay Pay Pay Pay Pay.

"We apologize profusely to the National Police Chief and the National Police for our song created by the title Pay Pay Payment whose lyrics pay the police, which we have sung until it went viral. I actually created this song for police officers who violate the regulations," said Alectroguy.

Alectroguy as the band's guitarist said that currently the song has been removed from the streaming platform for the song Spotify. He also appealed to users of social media platforms to remove content that uses the song.

"With this, I appeal to all users of social media platforms who already have our song with the title Pay Pay Pay, the lyrics of the song pay the police, to delete and withdraw all videos using our songs because if there is a risk in the future, it is not our responsibility," he said.