Activists from several prominent non-government organizations visited the Jakarta Police headquarters on Tuesday to ask about the seemingly lack of progress in solving a number of big cases from last year.
Indria Fernida, the deputy coordinator of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), specifically cited the attack on Indonesia Corruption Watch researcher Tama Satrya Langkun and the molotov bomb attack on the office of Tempo weekly magazine.
"Since the Jakarta Police has had a new chief, we haven't received any information about the case updates," she said.
The NGOs, among them Kontras, ICW, the Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) and the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, are united under the Public Coalition for National Police Reform.
Both attacks have been linked to a 2005 case involving suspicious bank accounts supposedly belonging to 15 National Police generals.
In June 2010, the ICW tried to revive the case and submitted to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the judicial mafia task force proof of wire transfers to several accounts connected to one of the generals involved in the 2005 case.
A month after, two unidentified men threw molotov cocktails at Tempo magazine's office on July 5.
The week of the attack, the magazine had featured an in-depth report on the case. The morning the magazine was to have gone on sale, 30,000 copies were bought up by unknown parties, although there were reports that stacks of magazines were loaded into police cars.
Three days later ICW researcher Tama Satrya Langkun was ambushed by four unknown assailants upon his return from watching a World Cup soccer match in South Jakarta. Tama sustained multiple bruises and cuts to his head and was hospitalized for days. To this day, parties responsible in both attacks remain a mystery.
"We still don't know who was responsible for those attacks," the Jakarta Police Chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said at the end of December.
Police have also refused to conduct any formal investigation into the suspicious accounts, saying that only two reports were connected to criminal activities and the officers involved had been charged long before the ICW made the allegations.
The activists also called on the police not to ignore the violence perpetrated by vigilante groups.
"We are asking the Jakarta Police Chief, as the highest security leader for Jakarta residents, to be more firm in taking legal actions against vigilante groups," Indria said.
The NGOs also alleged that police fabricated cases, especially those involving illegal drugs. "In drug-related cases, it is not seldom that police set people up, intending to lead a person to a position where he or she is caught red-handed with the drugs in their possession," she said.