Jakarta, hitclubapk3 Indonesia
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ICEL Executive Director Raynaldo G. Sembiring urged
National Police
form a National Police Chief Regulation regarding protection for fighters in the issue
environment
.
He conveyed this after holding an audience with the National Police Reform Acceleration Committee at the Ministry of State Secretariat, Jakarta, Wednesday (26/11).ICEL was present together with a number of other environmental organizations, such as Greenpeace, Walhi, and the Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago.
“And specifically, ICEL and Walhi asked the National Police to immediately form a National Police Regulation regarding protection for environmental fighters or Anti-SLAPP. So the hope is that if there is this National Police Regulation, we can suppress as many forms of violence and criminalization of environmental fighters as possible,” said Raynaldo.
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Raynaldo said that it was urgent that the Perkap be formed, he said that other institutions already had similar regulations.
Apart from that, he emphasized that this was also mandated by the Environmental Law, so the National Police should comply with it.
“Then there has also been a decision from the Constitutional Court, so what are you waiting for? We hope that the National Police can do that,” he said.
He also asked the National Police to change its face to be more humane when dealing with environmental activists.
Raynaldo said that environmental activists, in carrying out their role in providing assistance or advocacy on environmental issues, are often worried that they will face repression by the police.
“What we have just said is that we are not turning a blind eye to many who are actually becoming tools or providing support for corporations that we suspect are destroying the environment,” he said.
Meanwhile, Leonard Simanjuntak from Greenpeace Indonesia highlighted the number of retired National Police officers who are ‘backing’ for corporations.He said this was the root of the problem of potential environmental destruction.
Along with this issue, he also highlighted the use of excessive force by authorities against environmental activists which often occurs in various regions.In fact, according to him, this was also done in peaceful demonstrations.
“And this happens in many places in this republic, even to corporations that clearly violate the law. But have, in quotation marks, protectors in the form of retired National Police officers,” he said.
Walhi National Legal and Defense Manager Teo Reffelsen urged the National Police Reform Committee to evaluate and implement a moratorium on all activities of the National Police unit that provides security in a corporation.
Teo emphasized that this was also the root of the problem of rampant repressiveness and coercive actions by the police towards the community.
“Then, we also ask the police to stop all use of excessive force in responding to agrarian conflicts, as well as in responding to public protests related to pollution and other things related to the environment in companies,” said Teo.
(mnf/dal)
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