Pacovilla says: Assaulting presumably dirty staff who are interfering with a corruption investigation may be understandable but it is over-the-top…EVEN IN INDONESIA. In Denny Indrayana’s defense, we’ve all known CO’s we’d like to bitch slap and kick in the stomach–We just don’t act on those urges…usually. At any rate, Kudos to the Ministry for trying to clean up its prisons…
Slapping subordinates, in this case a non-compliant CO, is not at all uncommon in many countries. It occurred frequently in the German army before and during Hitler’s rule. It was also a common practice in the Imperial Japanese army, and it still is in many military and police organizations.
And lest we forget, slapping has happened in the American army too. In 1943 in Sicily, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton slapped a hospitalized soldier suffering from chronic dysentery and malaria.
When Patton entered a hospital tent all the soldiers jumped to attention except Private Charles Kuhl. When Patton asked Kuhl where he was hurt, Kuhl shrugged and replied that he was 'nervous' rather than wounded, adding "I guess I can't take it." Patton slapped Kuhl across the chin with his gloves, then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the tent entrance, shoving him out of the tent with a final kick to Kuhl's ass. Yelling "Don't admit this son-of-a-bitch", Patton demanded that Kuhl be sent back to the front at once, adding "You hear me, you gutless bastard? You're going back to the front.” And a week later at another hospital, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul Bennett. --Wikipedia
No more surprise prison visits mean that the Indonesian guards can cover up their corruption before a dreaded inspection.
DEPUTY JUSTICE MINISTER BARRED FROM SURPRISE PRISON INSPECTIONS
By Novianti Setuningsih
Jakarta Globe
April 4, 2012
Deputy Justice Minister Denny Indrayana has been barred from conducting surprise inspections of Indonesian prisons after allegedly slapping a prison guard during Monday's unannounced inspection of Pekanbaru prison in Riau.
The inspection uncovered an alleged drug trafficking ring involving three inmates and a prison guard. But Denny's actions during the unannounced visit — which reportedly included slapping one prison guard while an aide kicked another in the stomach — landed the deputy minister in hot water.
“[Denny] will not conduct other surprise inspections,” Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin said in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Amir heard of the alleged assaults from the chief of the Pekanbaru prison and the head of the ministry’s Riau office. When he confronted Denny about the allegations, the deputy minister denied the reports, but later admitted to slapping a prison guard, Amir said.
Denny arrived at Pekanbaru prison early Monday morning with officers from Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency (BNN). The raid was conducted under an agreement made with the BNN to crack down on drug trafficking in Indonesia's over-crowded prisons.
That agreement has now been temporarily frozen, Amir said.
The attack reportedly occurred after guards refused to open the prison gates for Denny and the BNN officers. The deputy minister and police had to wait outside until guards let them in.
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