Wiranto Determined to Arrest Disobedient Public Figures
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Ricky Mohammad Nugraha
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Laila Afifa
Selasa, 21 Mei 2019 21:34 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Coordinating Minister for Political, Law, and Security Affairs Wiranto declared that law enforcers will continue its hunt on disobedient public figures and made sure that authorities will not show preferential treatments.
“We’ll continue to summon and arrest public figures indicated of violating the law,” said Coordinating Minister Wiranto at his headquarters on Tuesday, May 21.
In response to allegations likening Wiranto’s leadership to those of Indonesia’s defunct New Order Regime, he maintained that it was essentially needed to maintain the country’s security and protect its people.
“We’re doing this because we want our nation to be safe, to have a peaceful society that is not hampered by violating acts such as we see now,” said Wiranto.
Earlier, Police arrested a number of public figures from the country’s opposition group who are mostly affiliated to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto.
The latest person to be arrested is Lieus Sungkharisma who faces charges regarding his role in rallying for the “people power” movement.
AHMAD FAIZ IBNU SANI
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