Reflecting On The Cases Of Teddy Minahasa And Ferdy Sambo, The National Police Must Make Internal Improvements For Position Promotion

Chairman of Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) Sugeng Teguh Santoso (PHOTO: Nailin In Saroh-VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairman of Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) Sugeng Teguh Santoso responded to the judge's decision on Inspector General Teddy Minahasa's life sentence. Teddy was sentenced to life because he was proven to have participated in circulating, offering and selling drugs weighing 1 kg violating Article 114 paragraph 2 uu no. 35 of 2009 concerning Drugs.

"Inspector General Teddy Minahasa is the first 2-star general to be proven to be involved in drug trafficking. An unacceptable condition will be carried out by a 2-star general," Sugeng said when confirmed, Wednesday, May 10.

IPW assessed that, as a high-ranking police officer, the case of Inspector General Teddy being a bad icon of abuse of authority by the police because as a Pati Polri it should state that drugs are enemies of the Indonesian people and nation because they can destroy the future of the younger generation.

"However, it is very easy for him to abuse his authority to exchange the confiscated evidence in his authority to be sold," he said.

Inspector General Teddy Minahasa's sentence shows the phenomenon that Indonesian justice needs to be questioned in terms of imposing a criminal decision because the decision reflects the absence of the same and fair parameters in imposing a verdict on the defendant when compared to the verdict against Ferdi Sambo.

"Especially in terms of considering aggravating or mitigating factors, public pressure that has still become an instrument that greatly determines law enforcement policies in imposing sanctions," he said.

IPW stated that the decision against Inspector General Teddy Minahasa should be a reference for the National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo to be firm in taking firm action against police officers who have the rank of Pati even if they are suspected of violating the law and violating their authority.

"The National Police must make internal improvements in terms of promotion of positions and careers so that the officers who are promoted are qualified people so that the Police can be trusted by the public," he said.

Previously, former West Sumatra Police Chief Inspector General Teddy Minahasa was sentenced to life imprisonment in the alleged narcotics trafficking case. The sanctions imposed by the panel of judges were lower than the demands of the public prosecutor (JPU).

"The defendant is therefore sentenced to life imprisonment," said Chief Judge Jon Arman Saragih at the West Jakarta District Court, Tuesday, May 9.