Kompolnas: Police Mural Festival Shows Respect For Human Rights

The National Police Chief Gen. Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo handed over the Bhayangkara Mural Festival 2021 trophy to the winner (Laily Rahmawaty/Antara)

JAKARTA - National Police Commissioner (Kompolnas) Poengky Indarti said the 2021 Bhayangkara Mural Festival shows the openness of the National Police Chief Gen. Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo to criticism, as well as respect for Human Rights (HAM).

"I am happy to see the openness of the National Police Chief to criticism. He hears the criticisms and aspirations of the community, and follows up on them," Poengky told Antara when confirmed in Jakarta, reported by Antara, Sunday, October 31.

According to Poengky, what the National Police Chief does must be an example for leaders and subordinates to be open, not anti-critic, willing to have a dialogue with the community, so that all problems can be handled properly.

"What is shown by the National Police Chief is also a form of respect for human rights, especially freedom of expression and expression through the art of painting murals," she said.

Poengky is optimistic that the openness carried out by the National Police Chief Gen. Pol Listyo Sigit Prabowo will gradually (gradually) change the "mindset" of members of the National Police, because post-reform police are civilian police who are humanist and respect human rights.

"In addition to having a set of legal rules, the National Police Chief has also provided concrete examples. Kompolnas supports and hopes that the implementation of the cultural reform of the National Police will be better," said Poengky.

Previously, the National Police held the Bhayangkara Mural Festival 2021, the National Police Chief's Cup for the first time. Followed by 803 works submitted by participants from various regions throughout Indonesia. Then it was selected to 154, and curated until 80 works were selected that competed at the National Police Headquarters level on October 30 yesterday.

From 80 murals with the theme of handling the COVID-19 pandemic and the sub-theme of criticism for the National Police, 10 winners were chosen to be 1, 2, and 3 winners, and 7 hopeful winners.

Chosen as the first winner, the work of an artist from Jabodetabek La Ode Umar who drew a visual containing various problems occurring within the police, such as extortion, the law of choice song, the frightening specter of the police, to the silence of works of art.

All of the participant's mural works will be repainted on educational media available at facilities owned by the DKI Jakarta Government. As for the 10 winners, their works were repainted on the poles of the Transjakarta Non-Cash Toll Road in front of the National Police Headquarters, Trunodjoyo Street, South Jakarta.