Listyo Sigit Prabowo takes oath as the new national authorities chief at the State Palace on Jan. 27,2021 (Picture Thanks To the State Secretariat)
BY: LENNY TRISTIA TAMBUN
JANUARY 27, 2021
Jakarta. Newly-appointed National Authorities Chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo on Wednesday guaranteed a much deeper role by his institution to impose health protocols amid the disastrous coronavirus outbreak that has contaminated over a million individuals and killed more than 28,500 others in the nation.
Explaining public security as the “supreme law”, Listyo said police involvement in imposing public health orders should not be contested.
” We will be carrying out tasks of imposing the health procedures concerning the Covid-19 pandemic,” Listyo stated shortly after being inaugurated as the country’s 25 th police chief at the State Palace in Central Jakarta.
” We will take procedures to increase public compliance to health procedures due to the fact that for us public safety is the supreme law,” he added.
It’s up to regional federal governments to regulate public health orders concerning Covid-19 however nearly all provinces have mandated face covering while in public.
There are different rules on social limitations among provinces, with fines becoming the most often utilized enforcement tool.
Police have actually come under public examination after it killed 6 Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) members last month in their attempts to take the hardline group leader, Rizieq Syihab, for a questioning on health procedure violation charges.
Rizieq was summoned twice by the police after he held a wedding celebration for a daughter and led several public events in November.
The incident happened on Dec. 7 when a police vehicle chasing after a lorry convoy bring Rizieq was obstructed by FPI members in 2 cars and trucks, leading to the deadly shootout.
Rizieq turned himself in to the Jakarta Cops on Dec. 12 and has since been apprehended.
Listyo, 51, changes Idham Aziz who reaches retirement age at the end of this month.
For lots of, it concerns not a surprise that Listyo becomes the president’s sole pick for the top post of the National Authorities. Listyo functioned as the district police chief in Solo when Jokowi was the mayor of the Central Java town in 2011.
He has also served as an assistant of the president.
A 1991 graduate of the Cops Academy, Listyo ended up being the first from his class to end up being a brigadier basic when he was promoted as the provincial cops chief in Banten in October 2016.
Within three years, he rose through the ranks to become the Criminal Investigation Firm head as a commissioner general.
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