Tribratanews.polri.go.id - Jakarta. The Indonesian Police Strategic Studies Institute (Lemkapi) said that the 2021 Bhayangkara Mural Festival competition was proof that the National Police were open to criticism.
Indonesian Police Institute for Strategic Studies Executive Director Edi Hasibuan said that criticism could be a means to improve the Police so that the public would more trust them.
The National Police Chief even emphasized that the mural participants whose works contain scathing criticism to build the National Police become friends of the National Police Chief. Thus, the National Police Chief is not anti-critic but is open to criticism. "All public criticism will be used as a means to continue to improve the Police so that the community more trusts them," explained the Executive Director of the Indonesian Police Institute for Strategic Studies.
This police legal expert from Bhayangkara University, Jakarta, said that since the establishment of the National Police, this is the first time that the National Police Chief has made a mural festival to accommodate public criticism.
As is known, the 2021 Bhayangkara Mural Festival will be attended by 802 participants throughout Indonesia. Of that number, 80 participants took part in the peak event of the 2021 Bhayangkara Mural Festival at the National Police Headquarters. From that amount, the jury selected ten winners of the first, second and third place and seven hopeful winners. All the festival judges come from people who understand mural art, and there are no elements that represent the Police at all.
Meanwhile, the Head of the National Police's Public Relations Division, Pol. Inspector-General Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono, at the peak event of the 2021 Bhayangkara Mural Festival at the National Police Headquarters, said that the works of 10 winners would be repainted on the five flyover poles in front of the National Police Headquarters, Trunojoyo street, Jakarta. The other 70 works will be repainted in some places in Indonesia.
The winner of the mural I described the criticisms of the Police, such as extortion, justice for the rich and the scary police figure.
The second-place winner described holding National Sports Week in Papua during the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the third-place winner took the theme of collaboration between the National Police and other parties in handling COVID-19.
