The last couple of months was like a long nightmare for many Indonesians. The year started with a gloomy note because of the crash of Indonesian Air Asia plane on its way from Surabaya to Singapore in the middle of December, killing everyone on board. Then other bad news followed, the President suddenly nominated a police general everyone knows as a corrupt and politically connected man, to be the new National Police Chief. Everyone was shocked. How could he make a blunder like this? Not just it was unthinkable a few months ago, when we were swooned by his charismatic low profile persona, but a blunder at this scale would have been detected if the media scrutinized him enough. But the media did not see it coming, so who made him do it? All kind of speculation wildly swirled around: how could he be so wrong in picking his nominee for one of the most powerful position in the country? Lots of questions were asked, lots of pondering and reflective action were taken, and almost all end u
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