Law enforcement in Indonesia

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The strength of the Indonesian National Police stood at approximately 285,000 in 2004. The national police force was formally separated as a branch of the armed forces and placed under the Office of the President in 1999. It also includes 12,000 marine police and an estimated 40,000 People’s Security (Kamra) trainees who serve as a police auxiliary and report for three weeks of basic training each year. There has been occasional friction between police and the military, with several instances of armed combat between them, usually caused by disputes over “turf” and shady business enterprises.^[1]

A particularity of law enforcement in Indonesia (even in times the country has a democratically elected government) is the regular lynching of crime suspects^[2].

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1. ^ Text used in this cited section originally came from: Indonesia (Dec 2004) profile from the Library of Congress Country Studies project.
2. ^ http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit79/p29-30_wardoyo.html

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• This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are United States government publications in the public domain.