Mr. President, We Need Your Bold Action

President SBY made symbolic action against corruption by visiting assaulted ICW activist Tama. Previously, in the same vein President established Team 8 to investigate the alleged Bibit-Chandra of bribery case. And President also asked for outside court settlement for Bibit-Chandra's case only after the polling showed that people felt the government cannot handle this case.

If I have to give evaluation the way President did to the cabinet ministers, then I will give red mark to President in terms of law enforcement.

The style of SBY's leadership concerning with law enforcement is 'not to interfere'. Can he do that? Of course not. I know the President is very good person and he by no means support the evil. However the President's inaction means indirectly support them. The corruptor camp will hail no bold action against them.

The assault on ICW activist and Tempo magazine headquarters are not coincidence. Ridiculously, the President said it was a third party benefitting the situation and asked the police to arrest them. Certainly it is impossible that the incidents have not any relations with the case of suspicious accounts of several higher ranking police officers. And it is not logic to let the tainted institution to solve the problem embroiled them. And worse, Corruption Eradication Commission has declared that they will not take up the investigation. It seems they have been intimidated by previous traumatic experience against the police.

President SBY is likely a good singer and song writer. His heart tends to be soft. But this time we need his bold action to enforce law. We don't need his symbolic visit to Tama. We need the real action to command the impartial investigation against the suspicious officers' accounts. Otherwise many people will think he has no capability to punish his disgraced subordinate. And once again 'not interfere' means to support the misconduct parties.