I’ve said my piece in the Jakarta Globe article below. What do you think?
Susno Duadji. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)
NGO Testing Susno’s Food for Poison
Susno Duadji says he has taken steps to ensure his safety after making corruption allegations against fellow officers in the National Police.
“I’m not a little boy anymore. I calculated the risks before I opened my mouth. I’m not afraid. I know the National Police institution and I have taken preventive measures,” the former National Police chief detective told detik.com.
He said he anticipated the possibility of being slandered, attacked, imprisoned and even murdered.
“I don’t stay in one place anymore now. It’s not safe for me anymore,” he said.
Susno has even enlisted an NGO to sample his food lest he be poisoned.
“We’re guarding his health because he’s under a lot of pressures,” said Dr Joserizal Jurnalis of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee or MER-C.
Susno appears to have made a remarkable comeback in the public sphere. Reviled late last year as king of the corrupt “crocodiles” in a battle against the “geckoes” of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), he now presents himself as a man risking his life to battle graft. He has even been mentioned as a candidate to lead the KPK.
But talk of Susno heading the antigraft agency comes from politicians “with an axe to grind,” says media strategist Ong Hock Chuan of Jakarta’s Maverick public relations firm.
“The press picks up those interpretations and presents them as fact,” said Ong, who dismissed the notion that Susno could actually get the position.
Meanwhile, Ong suspects Susno’s actions are not a strategy to reinvent himself but simply an attempt at revenge. The longtime police officer was removed from his position in the wake of the KPK scandal.
“I think he’s like a bull in a china shop, a wounded bull. It’s about getting back at the people who cost him his career,” he said.
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