Mahfud MD Will Investigate The Reason Why The Police Did Not Fire Raden Brotoseno For His Good Behavior

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD. (Doc Setpres/Rusman)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD admitted that he would explore the background of the National Police's reluctance to impose severe sanctions on AKBP Raden Brotoseno who stumbled upon an extraordinary crime, namely a corruption case.

This was conveyed by Mahfud in response to the 2009-2014 Vice President's Advisor for Strategic Studies Abdillah Toha who asked questions via social media.

"Pak Abdillah Dear. We will investigate first, yes. We don't know the details of the background and the facts," said Mahfud through the Twitter account @mohmahfudmd, Thursday 2 June.

The convict in the bribery case was maintained as a member of Bhayangkara despite his status as a convict in the bribery case. The National Police reasoned that Brotoseno was not fired because he had good performance and behavior while serving in the National Police.

"Is this the so-called country of five precepts, Mr. @mohmahfudmd?" asked Abdillah on his Twitter account @AT_AbdillahToha.

Abdillah was surprised by the reason the Police did not fire Brotoseno, who was a convict in the Rasuah case. According to him, the Police should have sentenced Brotoseno who was suspected of corruption. Meanwhile, regarding his behavior in the Police institution, it is a different matter.

"Corruption is allowed as long as it behaves well. It is appropriate that the corruptors arrested by the KPK are smiling," he said.

Brotoseno is known to be a member of the National Police with the rank of AKBP. The member of the National Police who had served in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) was involved in the corruption case of rice field printing in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.

Based on the results of the trial at the Corruption Court (Tipikor) at the Central Jakarta District Court in decision number 26 of 2017, Raden Brotoseno was found guilty and sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of IDR 300 million

With this decision, Brotoseno has been in detention since 2017. Until finally, he was released on parole since February 2020, and was released purely at the end of September 2020. He was released early because he was given a parole program. Raden Brotoseno received a remission of 13 months 25 days.

After his release, Brotoseno returned to duty at the National Police because he did not receive a dismissal from the Bhayangkara Corps. Based on the results of the professional ethics trial, Brotoseno was only sentenced to a demotion.