December 18, 2025 | 07:53 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Commission for the Acceleration of Police Reform gained fresh ammunition from the Constitutional Court to evaluate the National Police in mid-November 2025. A panel of constitutional justices issued Decision No. 114, which requires active-duty police officers to resign or retire from the force when they occupy civilian posts.
Mahfud Md., a member of the Police Reform Commission, said the team had examined the ruling as material for internal reform within the police. "We have discussed it, though it has not yet become a main topic," said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court when he met Tempo in the Senen area of Central Jakarta on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
According to Mahfud, the Commission questioned an explanation by Law Minister Supratman Andi Agtas regarding the Court's ruling. Supratman, a politician from the Gerindra Party, said active-duty police officers who filled civilian posts did not need to step down.
Mahfud took a different view. Decision No. 114, he said, should apply from the moment it was pronounced in court. Police officers were legally entitled to hold civilian posts, Mahfud said, until the Court issued its ruling. "They must choose to resign or retire after the Court reads out the decision," he asserted.
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