Jakarta (ANTARA) – The mechanism and standards for assigning lively personnel of the Indonesian Navy (TNI) in ministries and authorities companies will likely be strictly regulated, based on Head of the TNI Data Middle Main Common Hariyanto.
Talking in regards to the draft regulation on amendments to Legislation Quantity 34 of 2004 on TNI, he emphasised that the location of lively army personnel outdoors the TNI establishment have to be in accordance with nationwide wants and never intervene with the precept of TNI neutrality.
“The location of lively troopers outdoors the TNI establishment will likely be strictly regulated so it stays in step with nationwide pursuits and doesn’t trigger overlapping authority,” Hariyanto mentioned in a press assertion right here Sunday.
In line with him, the TNI invoice goals to good the its principal duties to be simpler with out overlapping with different establishments or in going through army and non-military threats.
For that reason, he mentioned the invoice is a strategic step to strengthen nationwide protection and improve the professionalism of troopers.
“The revision of the TNI Legislation is a strategic want in order that the TNI’s duties and roles are extra structured and adaptive to the challenges of the instances,” he mentioned.
The present TNI Legislation restricts lively army personnel from holding civilian positions until they retire or resign from service.
In the meantime, the revision proposes growing the variety of civilian posts accessible to TNI personnel from 10 to fifteen, together with roles within the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Authorized, and Safety Affairs, the Legal professional Common’s Workplace in addition to the Supreme Courtroom.
Civil society organizations have criticized this variation, warning that it blurs the excellence between army and civilian domains.
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Proposed modifications on the TNI regulation have additionally sparked considerations over a possible revival of the dual-function position of the army, harking back to the New Order period.
Throughout a working assembly with Fee I of the Home of Representatives (DPR) final Thursday (March 13), TNI Commander Common Agus Subiyanto emphasised that the revision of the TNI Legislation will uphold civil supremacy.
He promised that TNI is dedicated to sustaining a steadiness between the position of the army and civil authority by sustaining the precept of civil supremacy, in addition to army professionalism in finishing up its principal duties.
He additionally suggested the general public to not be simply provoked by destructive information associated to the dialogue of the TNI invoice.
“The TNI invitations all parts of the nation to keep up unity and never be simply provoked. We should proceed to keep up nationwide stability collectively,” Subiyanto said.
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