The Jakarta Post, 5/30/2002 1:55:07 PM
Police pondering candidates for deputy chief of Maluku operation
JAKARTA (JP): National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said on Thursday that his
office was still pondering several candidates to be the next deputy of the Security
Restoration Operation (Opslihkam) in Maluku.
This came after the installment of Maj. Gen. Djoko Santoso as the new Pattimura
Military Command chief earlier in the day.
Djoko will also be appointed commander of the operation.
Da'i said the police have not yet decided whether to appoint incumbent Maluku Police
chief Brig. Gen. Soenarko D.A. as deputy chief of the Maluku operation.
"We're hoping to make a decision soon," Da'i said, after the opening of a Marine and
Fisheries ministerial meeting at the State Palace on Thursday, as quoted by Antara.
Earlier on Thursday, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto officially installed
Maj. Gen. Djoko Santoso as the new Pattimura Military chief overseeing Maluku and
North Maluku inthe provincial capital, Ambon.
Djoko has replaced Brig. Gen. Mustopo, who will be stationed back at Army
Headquarters.
Djoko Santoso is a 1975 graduate of the Indonesian MilitaryAcademy. He was, at one
time, the social and political assistant to the Jakarta Military Command. Currently,
Djoko is the chief of the Army's Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) division II
andcommander of the TNI's quick response troops, known as PPRC.
The government has decided to restructure the Civil Emergency Administration in
Maluku by forming a coordinated security command, which will be led by the
Pattimura Military chief, along with a deputy from the National Police holding the rank
of brigadier general.
The decision was taken following a series of differences over the handling of several
incidents in Ambon, which ended in a violent dispute between personnel from the
Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) and members of the Army's Special Forces
earlierthis month. (edt)
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