The Indonesian Military (TNI) raid of a police headquarters in Medan, North Sumatra over a criminal suspect related to a soldier has raised concerns about fresh tension between the two institutions.

Some 40 soldiers from the Bukit Barisan regional military command, which oversees the defense of North Sumatra and three neighboring provinces, surrounded the office of Medan Police’s criminal investigation department head Comr. Teuku Fathir Mustafa for two hours on Aug. 4.

The military personnel, led by a member of the regional command’s legal department, Mayor Dedi Hasibuan, then had a heated debate with the city’s chief detective about the release on bail of an alleged land certificate fraud suspect.

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Apriadi Gunawan and Nina A. Loasana (The Jakarta Post)

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