Bangunan sekolah SMAN 3 Kota Bekasi (Suara.com/Danan Arya)
Kepala Ombudsman Jawa Barat (Jabar) Dan Satriana memberikan tanggapan terkait dugaan pungutan liar (pungli) di sejumlah sekolah di Jabar, salah satunya dari Komite Sekolah kepada wali murid SMA 3 Kota Bekasi.
Menurut Dan Satriana, ada potensi bahwa yang dilakukan Komite Sekolah bukan sumbangan namun pungutan yang bertentangan dengan peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
"Jika saya lihat WA nya itu jelas dilakukan Komite Sekolah karena di sana ada jumlah yang ditetapkan, ada waktu untuk membayarkan, sudah jelas itu bukan sumbangan tapi merupakan pungutan yang bertentangan dengan peraturan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan tentang Komite Sekolah," ucap Dan.
Dijelaskan oleh Dan Satriana, bahwa sifat sumbangan yang diminta oleh Komite Sekolah harus bersifat sukarela dan tidak ditentukan jumlahnya, serta tak berpengaruh kepada peserta didik.
Namun lebih lanjut, Dan Satriana mempertanyakan soal anggaran pendidikan di masing-masing pemerintah provinsi, apakah sudah sesuai dan cukup untuk membiayai operasional sekolah.
"Pak Ridwan Kamil kan dalam pernyataannya mengatakan jangan ada pungutan dalam bentuk apapun. Nah, itu kita harus tanyakan lebih lanjut, apakah anggaran pemerintah sudah cukup untuk membiayai operasional sekolah sesuai dengan standar pendidikan nasional," jelas Dan Satriana.
Jika dana operasional sekolah tersebut sudah cukup maka larangan yang disampaikan Ridwan Kamil sebagai Gubernur Jawa Barat sudah sangat relevan.
Malah kata Dan, Ridwan Kamil bisa membuat peraturan yang melarang adanya pungutan liar sekolah-sekolah di Jawa Barat.
Namun kata Dan, jika ditemukan fakta bahwa dana operasional sekolah dari Pemprov tak mencukupi, maka larangan dari Ridwan Kamil bisa sangat membingungkan.
"Itu bisa menimbulkan ketidakpastian bagi sekolah maupun bagi orang tua yang memberikan sumbangan," jelasnya.
Ombudsman Jabar lanjut Dan menemukan adanya mal administrasi di dalam mekanisme pengelolaan sumbangan.
"Kami sudah memberikan saran kepada pemerintah Jawa Barat untuk membuat aturan yang menyeluruh sebagai payung hukum tentang pengelolaan sumbangan sekolah," ungkap Dan.
Sebelumnya, Kepala Sekolah SMAN 3 Kota Bekasi Reni Yosefa, mengungkap dana sumbangan yang dibayarkan wali murid bertujuan untuk meningkatkan prestasi sekolah.
Seperti mengikuti perlombaan tingkat nasional maupun internasional yang SMAN 3 Kota Bekasi ikut berpartisipasi.
Akan tetapi dana sumbangan yang dimaksud itu, Reni menegaskan tidak ada unsur pemaksaan kepada orang tua siswa.
"Tidak ada paksaan dan kewajiban, itu pesan yang bisa saya sampaikan dari hasil rapat komite dengan orang tua," kata Reni seperti dikutip dari SuaraBekasi.id
Malaysian Caretaker Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, candidate for The National Front coalition, Barisan Nasional, gestures outside a nomination centre in Bera, Pahang, Malaysia November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
Malaysia's Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Friday said his country supported the decision by a Dutch court to sentence three suspects for their role in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
The court on Thursday handed down life jail sentences to thee suspects, and ordered them to pay at least 16 million euros ($16.5 million) in compensation to relatives of the victims.
Moscow will scrutinize a Dutch court’s decision in the case of the 2014 Boeing crash in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Deputy Spokesman Ivan Nechayev said at a briefing on Thursday.
"We will analyze this decision because as far as all these issues go, every nuance matters," he said. "We will be ready to make a comment after examining this legal document," Nechayev added.
Earlier on Thursday, a Dutch court began ruling on the MH17 crash case, saying that the Boeing had been downed by a Buk missile fired from near the Pervomayskoye settlement, which was at the time controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) militia.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala-Lumpur crashed in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people from ten countries. In June 2019, the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) announced that it had identified a group of four people, suspected of being involved in the incident.
They are former militia leader in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, and his subordinates Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Leonid Kharchenko. The trial against them began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020. They are accused of delivering a Buk missile system from Russia to Ukraine. The trial is taking place in the absence of the accused, with two Dutch lawyers representing Pulatov’s interests.
The prosecution demands life imprisonment for all the defendants. Lawyers also seek material compensation for the relatives of the victims. Russian officials have repeatedly expressed their lack of confidence in the results of the JIT’s work, and pointed out the groundlessness of the accusations, as well as the unwillingness to use Moscow’s conclusions during the investigation.
What Happened to Flight MH17?
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was downed over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014 as the region was mired in a conflict with the new government following a coup earlier that year. As a result, all 298 passengers – mostly Dutch – and crew on board were killed in the crash.
Following the tragedy, Kiev and the then-self-proclaimed republics in the Donbass region blamed each other for the downing, with the latter contending that they had no military equipment that would allow them to shoot down an aircraft at that altitude. The United States and a number of European nations, for their part, rushed to allege that Russia was responsible for the incident – a claim that was made even before an official investigation was launched.
Shortly thereafter, the Netherlands set up a Joint Investigative Team (JIT) to probe the MH17 case, but left Russia out of the process despite the latter’s consistent offers to assist in the investigation.
The JIT’s probe concluded that the aircraft was downed by a Buk missile, allegedly launched from a Russian anti-aircraft missile brigade ordinarily stationed in the city of Kursk, not far from the Ukrainian border. At the same time, the Dutch-led team refused to share concrete evidence to corroborate the claims that Russia was responsible for the downing.
In 2019, JIT announced that international arrest warrants would be issued for four suspects, Russians Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, on charges of murder, with a trial over the MH17 case beginning in the Netherlands in March 2020.
Moscow has repeatedly slammed JIT’s conclusions as “openly biased” and “one-sided” and emphasized that after being denied access to the formal probe, Russia had carried out its own investigation, which concluded that it was an older version of the missile made in 1986 and belonging to Ukraine that downed the ill-fated plane. Dutch investigators, however, ignored the information.
Moscow Slams Dutch Court's Politically-Motivated Verdict in MH17 Trial
Earlier in the day, The Hague District Court issued a verdict in the trial in absentia of three Russians and a Ukrainian over their alleged roles in the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft and the deaths of all 298 people on board. Three suspects were found guilty and sentenced to life, while the fourth was acquitted.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has criticized The Hague District Court's verdict in the MH17 case, stressing that the course and results of the trial in the Netherlands show that the proceedings were based on a political order to reinforce the version about Russia’s alleged involvement in the downing of the Malaysian plane.
Moscow expressed regret that the court in The Hague neglected the principles of impartial justice for the sake of political expediency and ignored the fact that all the conclusions of the prosecution are built upon anonymous testimonies.
The ministry pointed out that the court wasn't even perturbed by the fact that the Ukrainian side refused to provide radar data or recordings of communication between air traffic controllers and the plane crew.
"A certain amount of clarity could've been provided by satellite images of the United States, which were taken on the day of the crash. However, Washington refused the requests of the judges to disclose the data, or at least allow the images to be viewed under special conditions," the ministry said.
The Dutch court also ignored documents that were declassified by the Russian Defense Ministry in 2018 concerning the missile, whose debris was found at the crash site.
"Only those materials were selected for analysis that were intended to confirm the version imposed by The Hague. At the same time, documents declassified by the Russian Defense Ministry, indicating the transfer to Ukraine of a missile, the serial number of which matches that found on the wreckage at the crash site, were not taken into account," the ministry said.
Donald Trump has found comparatively few friends among his party for a former US president after announcing his 2024 campaign effort earlier this week. Many Republicans have held him responsible for their poor performance in the midterm elections last week, and see little utility in him as their presidential candidate.
When he announced his new election campaign on Tuesday, the Mar-a-Lago event was populated with a slew of alt-right figures and die-hard Trump supporters, but almost no major politicians once thought to be in Trump’s corner, such as Reps.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R--GA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), or Jim Jordan (R-OH), or RNC chair Ronna McDaniel - to say nothing of the party’s leaders in Congress. However, Greene, Gaetz, and several other minor GOP lawmakers have still endorsed him.
The way Trump tells it, he likes it that way. At his announcement speech on Tuesday, he cast himself not as a former head of state, but as he did in the 2016 race: an outsider running against the entire US political system.
“I don’t like to think of myself as a politician, but I guess that’s what I am. I hate that thought,” Trump said. “We will be resisted by the combined forces of the establishment, the media, the special interests, the globalists, the Marxist radicals, the corporations, the weaponized power of the federal government, the colossal political machines, the tidal wave of dark money, and the most dangerous domestic censorship system ever created by man or woman.”
Trump’s relationship with the GOP has waxed and waned since 2015, with Republicans first objecting to his campaign, then rallying behind him after his victory, then turning against him again after the failed insurrection by his supporters on January 6, 2021. While some in the GOP continued to back him, others latched on to parts of his message, such as the alleged problem of voter fraud, while keeping their distance from the former POTUS.
When asked if he would endorse Trump’s campaign, US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters: “you guys are crazy.”
McCARTHY won’t say whether he’ll endorse Donald Trump for president.
McCarthy has gone back and forth on supporting Trump, and is at odds with much of the small-but loud “Freedom Caucus,” a pro-Trump cohort in the House. According to media reports, McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker has seen him trying to court some of that caucus for support, even as members like Gaetz try to undermine his campaign.
Other prominent Republican figures have spoken openly against Trump, including former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, both of whom have said since the election last week that Trump’s message, as told through the candidates he endorsed, had cost them the “red wave” they had predicted.
“I thought he was right on target in terms of his criticism of Biden’s policies, but then he drifted into the same grievances and negative tone that we have seen before that has cost us elections,” Hutchinson said of Trump when asked by The Washington Post. “I am confident that there will be good alternatives in 2024.”
"I think Trump's kind of a drag on our ticket,” Ryan said earlier this week. “I think Donald Trump gives us problems, politically. We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office. I think we just have some Trump hangover. I think he's a drag on our office, on our races."
“What’s nice is that the Republicans actually have a bench for once,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told The Hill.
Many of the GOP figures who’ve spoken with US media in recent days said they had more immediate priorities than Trump’s campaign, such as getting Herschel Walker elected to the US Senate in Georgia’s special election next month, and various mundane legislative concerns. Many also said they found Trump’s decision to announce so close to the election, while some races are still having their ballots counted, to be distracting.
While the Republicans have won a very narrow majority in the US House of Representatives, they failed to capture the Senate, and enjoyed middling success with state gubernatorial races. The GOP had predicted a “red wave” of conservative victories due to US President Joe Biden’s lackluster term thus far, the unstable state of the economy, the Democrats’ support for issues like abortion and LGBTQ rights, and the historic trend of the president’s party faring worse in the midterms.
Many of the GOP candidates who lost their elections were backed by Trump, who gave his own endorsements separately from rival leading GOP figures, such as his former vice president, Mike Pence, and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Pence notably parted ways with Trump over the president’s rejection of the 2020 election results, which he claimed Biden won through fraud. Trump supporters later erected a gallows outside the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, in which they sought to capture key members of Congress and overturn the election results.
Trump’s attempt to influence congressional leadership contests has also fared poorly, with Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), Trump’s pick for Senate minority leader, getting few votes in his challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the GOP’s longtime Senate leader and longtime Trump opponent. It’s also unclear if McCarthy, who Trump has spoken in favor of, will triumph in his bid to become House speaker.
Ratusan karyawan diperkirakan akan mengundurkan diri dari Twitter setelah miliarder Elon Musk mengeluarkan ultimatum 'berjam-jam dengan intensitas tinggi'
Elon Musk dan penasihatnya mengadakan pertemuan dengan beberapa pekerja Twitter untuk mencoba menghentikan mereka resign. Kredit...Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Ratusan karyawan Twitter diperkirakan akan meninggalkan perusahaan media sosial, setelah ultimatum dari pemilik baru Elon Musk bahwa staf mendaftar untuk "berjam-jam dengan intensitas tinggi" atau "pergi".
Dalam jajak pendapat di aplikasi tempat kerja Blind, 42 persen dari 180 orang memilih jawaban untuk "Mengambil opsi keluar, saya bebas!"
Aplikasi memverifikasi karyawan melalui alamat email kantor mereka dan memungkinkan mereka berbagi informasi secara anonim.
Seperempat jajak pendapat mengatakan mereka telah memilih untuk tetap, "dengan enggan", dan hanya 7 persen dari peserta jajak pendapat mengatakan mereka "mengklik ya untuk tetap tinggal, saya hardcore."
Perusahaan memberi tahu karyawan bahwa mereka akan menutup kantornya dan memotong akses lencana hingga Senin, menurut dua sumber.
Petugas keamanan mulai mengusir karyawan dari kantor pada Kamis malam, waktu setempat, kata satu sumber.
Elon Musk bertemu dengan beberapa karyawan top untuk mencoba meyakinkan mereka agar tetap tinggal, kata salah satu staf saat ini, serta karyawan yang baru saja keluar yang berhubungan dengan rekan-rekan Twitter.
Meskipun tidak jelas berapa banyak karyawan yang memilih untuk tetap tinggal, angka tersebut menyoroti keengganan beberapa staf untuk tetap bekerja di perusahaan tempat Mr Musk buru-buru memecat setengah karyawannya, termasuk manajemen puncak.
Dia juga dituduh oleh staf dengan kejam mengubah budaya untuk menekankan jam kerja yang panjang dan kecepatan yang intens.
Twitter – yang telah kehilangan banyak anggota tim komunikasinya – tidak menanggapi permintaan komentar.
Ratusan bergabung dengan kelompok swasta 'PHK sukarela'
Dalam obrolan pribadi di Signal dengan sekitar 50 staf Twitter, hampir 40 orang mengatakan mereka telah memutuskan untuk keluar, menurut mantan karyawan tersebut.
Dan, di grup Slack pribadi untuk karyawan dan mantan karyawan Twitter, sekitar 360 orang telah bergabung dengan saluran baru berjudul "PHK sukarela", menurut seseorang yang mengetahui grup Slack.
Petugas keamanan dilaporkan mulai mengeluarkan staf dari kantor Twitter tak lama setelah ultimatum Elon Musk disahkan. (AP: Mary Altaffer)
Jajak pendapat terpisah di Blind meminta staf untuk memperkirakan berapa persen orang yang akan meninggalkan Twitter, berdasarkan persepsi mereka.
Lebih dari separuh responden memperkirakan setidaknya 50 persen karyawan akan keluar.
Hati biru dan emoji salut membanjiri Twitter dan ruang obrolan internalnya pada hari Kamis, untuk kedua kalinya dalam dua minggu saat karyawan Twitter mengucapkan selamat tinggal.
Pada pukul 18.00 EST (Jumat pukul 09.00 AEDT), lebih dari dua lusin karyawan Twitter di seluruh Amerika Serikat dan Eropa telah mengumumkan pengunduran diri mereka dalam postingan Twitter publik yang ditinjau oleh Reuters, meskipun setiap pengunduran diri tidak dapat diverifikasi secara independen.
Pada hari Rabu pagi, Musk telah mengirim email kepada karyawan Twitter, mengatakan: "Ke depan, untuk membangun terobosan Twitter 2.0 dan berhasil di dunia yang semakin kompetitif, kita harus sangat keras".
Email tersebut meminta staf untuk mengklik "ya" jika mereka ingin bertahan.
Mereka yang tidak memberikan tanggapan hingga pukul 17.00 pada hari Kamis akan dianggap telah berhenti dan diberikan paket pesangon, kata email tersebut.
Ketika tenggat waktu mendekat, karyawan berebut untuk mencari tahu apa yang harus dilakukan.
Satu tim di dalam Twitter memutuskan untuk mengambil lompatan bersama dan meninggalkan perusahaan, kata seorang karyawan yang keluar kepada Reuters.
Dalam sindiran nyata atas seruan Musk agar karyawan menjadi "hardcore", bios profil Twitter dari beberapa insinyur yang berangkat pada hari Kamis menggambarkan diri mereka sebagai "insinyur softcore" atau "ex-insinyur hardcore".
Perusahaan Musk dituduh 'menganiaya, melecehkan, dan melecehkan'
Kekacauan yang sedang berlangsung di Twitter datang pada saat yang tidak menguntungkan bagi miliarder tersebut, yang kini telah digugat oleh karyawan Twitter yang cacat atas pendiriannya tentang pekerjaan jarak jauh dan tuduhan melanggar undang-undang perburuhan di SpaceX.
Beberapa karyawan SpaceX yang dipecat setelah menulis surat terbuka yang mengecam perilaku Musk telah mengajukan keluhan ke National Labour Relations Board (NLRB).
Elon Musk juga bersaksi minggu ini dalam gugatan yang diajukan terhadap dewan eksekutif Tesla. (Reuters: Evelyn Hockstein)
Surat tersebut, yang diedarkan pada bulan Juni, meminta eksekutif SpaceX untuk mengutuk perilaku publik Musk di Twitter — termasuk membuat tuduhan ringan bahwa dia melakukan pelecehan seksual terhadap seorang pramugari — dan meminta pertanggungjawaban semua orang atas perilaku yang tidak dapat diterima.
Surat itu dikirim beberapa minggu setelah muncul laporan media bahwa Musk membayar $250.000 kepada pramugari untuk membatalkan potensi gugatan pelecehan seksual terhadapnya.
Miliarder itu membantah tuduhan itu
Karyawan dalam surat mereka mendesak SpaceX untuk menegakkan kebijakannya secara seragam terhadap perilaku yang tidak dapat diterima dan berkomitmen pada proses transparan untuk menanggapi klaim pelanggaran.
Sehari kemudian, Paige Holland-Thielen dan empat karyawan lainnya yang berpartisipasi dalam mengatur surat tersebut dipecat, menurut pengajuan yang dibuat oleh Ms Holland-Thielen ke kantor NLRB regional di California.
Empat karyawan tambahan dipecat beberapa minggu kemudian karena keterlibatan mereka dalam surat tersebut.
Seorang juru bicara perusahaan tidak segera menanggapi permintaan komentar.
Sementara itu, gugatan baru yang diajukan oleh manajer teknik yang berbasis di California Dmitry Borodaenko mengatakan mandat baru Musk bahwa karyawan bekerja "berjam-jam dengan intensitas tinggi" dan berhenti bekerja dari jarak jauh merupakan diskriminasi terhadap pekerja penyandang disabilitas.
Borodaenko — yang mengatakan Twitter memecatnya minggu ini ketika dia menolak untuk melapor ke kantor — mengajukan gugatan kelompok yang diusulkan terhadap perusahaan di pengadilan federal San Francisco pada hari Rabu, waktu setempat, menuduh aturan baru melanggar Undang-Undang Penyandang Disabilitas Amerika (Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA)).
Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes".
Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy.
I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay.
Borodaenko memiliki kecacatan yang membuatnya rentan terhadap COVID-19, menurut pengaduan tersebut.
Gugatan tersebut mengatakan banyak karyawan Twitter penyandang disabilitas telah dipaksa untuk mengundurkan diri karena mereka tidak dapat memenuhi standar kinerja dan produktivitas yang dituntut Musk.
Dalam pengaduan terpisah yang diajukan di pengadilan yang sama pada hari Rabu, Twitter dituduh memberhentikan ribuan pekerja kontrak tanpa memberikan pemberitahuan 60 hari yang diwajibkan oleh undang-undang federal.
Twitter sudah menghadapi gugatan class action yang diusulkan, juga di pengadilan federal San Francisco, mengklaim telah melanggar undang-undang itu dengan memberhentikan secara tiba-tiba sekitar 3.700 karyawan, atau setengah dari tenaga kerja perusahaan, setelah Musk mengambil alih.
Twitter tidak segera menanggapi permintaan komentar pada hari Kamis.
Kapolda Metro Jaya Irjen Fadil Imran. (Dok. Polda Metro Jaya)
Kapolda Metro Jaya Irjen Pol Fadil Imran menyebut masalah kejahatan jalanan tidak akan selesai jika hanya mengedepankan pendekatan penegakan hukum. Sebab di era pemolisian modern menurutnya pendekatan yang perlu dikedepankan ialah pencegahan.
Hal ini disampaikan Fadil saat meluncurkan aplikasi Ada Polisi di Balai Pertemuan Polda Metro Jaya, Jakarta, hari Kamis, 17/11/2022.
Aplikasi ini merupakan inovasi Polda Metro Jaya dalam melakukan pencegahan terhadap kejahatan jalanan dengan mengandalkan teknologi digital disertai aksi nyata di lapangan dengan metode menyambangi warga.
Menurut Fadil Imran, perkembangan zaman membuat kejahatan jalanan ikut beradaptasi. Ia mencotohkan kejahatan di Transjakarta yang belakangan ini santer terdengar dan membandingkannya dengan pola kejahatan zaman dulu.
“Kejahatan jalanan tidak pernah hilang, bahkan justru semakin variatif. Bila menggunakan pendekatan penegakan hukum, maka masalah ini tidak akan kunjung selesai. Inilah mengapa di era pemolisian modern, pendekatan yang perlu dikedepankan ialah pencegahan” kata Fadil.
"Banyak kasus yang terjadi di fasilitas umum seperti Transjakarta, ada saja gangguannya. Kalau dulu masih di angkot dari Tangerang ke Kota, dari Bekasi ke Kampung Rambutan, dari Pasar Minggu ke Depok wajar kalau terjadi kejahatan jalanan," katanya.
Mantan Kapolda Jawa Timur tersebut menjelaskan bahwa kelebihan pendekatan pencegahan salah satunya mampu menganalisa akar permasalahan. Selain itu juga berorientasi pada kerjasama dengan stakeholder serta melakukan pre-emptive strike.
"Karena meskipun kita hidup di era digital, tidak semua masalah dapat diselesaikan hanya dengan digitalisasi. Digital bukan jalan pintas, namun sarana untuk mempermudah kita mencapai sebuah tujuan tanpa melupakan interaksi. Untuk itu dibutuhkan tailor made solution dan problem oriented policing, mengingat Jakarta is a Big Kampung,” katanya.
"Program ini merupakan bentuk nyata keseriusan saya untuk mendukung, memperkuat, dan terus mengedepankan fungsi Binmas, Bhabinkantibmas sebagai ujung tombak,” imbuhnya.
Sementara Ketua Pokja Aplikasi Ada Polisi, AKBP Iver Monossoh menambahkan bahwa aplikasi Ada Polisi menjadi salah satu tools untuk melakukan pencegahan, dengan membangun sistem big data dari tindakan kriminal yang sudah maupun yang berpotensi terjadi.
Sehingga, dapat mengidentifikasi akar masalah, menganalisa karakteristik dan pola kejahatan, baik tempat, waktu, sarana, alat kekerasan termasuk penggunaan narkoba dan minuman keras oleh pelaku.
"Semua akan menjadi informasi penting bagi Polri maupun stakeholder terkait, dalam menciptakan ekosistem yang membuat kejahatan jalanan sulit terjadi," pungkas Iver.
Ia menambahkan bahwa, kejahatan jalanan bisa selesai jika masyarakatnya guyub dan rukun, Sehingga tidak memerlukan jalur penegakan hukum. "Kalau kita hanya berorientasi pada penegakan hukum, maka ini tidak akan selesai. Ada fakta bahwa kalau kita guyub dan rukun, masalah ini sebenarnya bisa selesai," imbaunya.
NATO member states are hollowing out their armed forces in their rush to arm Ukraine for a proxy fight with Russia, defence and foreign affairs experts have said after a stray missile incident undermined trust in the Kiev regime.
The Kiev regime tested the patience of its Western backers on Tuesday night when President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded NATO intervene militarily against Russian forces — after two people were killed by a stray missile falling in neighbouring Poland.
After several hours of anonymous briefings from Washington and Polish media reports that two Russian missiles had hit the NATO member, it was confirmed that it was fired from a Ukrainian surface-to-air missile (SAM) battery — although Kiev continues to deny this.
That has prompted calls from many quarters — including some in the US Republican Party — to cut off the tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine which has strained the ability of western militaries and arms industries to sustain.
The US military has reportedly run so low on ammunition for howitzers it supplied to Ukraine that it is looking to buy 100,000 shells from South Korea. But it is not the only country to overextend itself.
Spain has this week pledged six of its 36 MIM-23 Hawk SAM systems in response to Kiev's call for more air defences against Russian cruise missiles and kamikaze drones.
Croatia announced on Tuesday that it will send 14 Soviet-made Mi-8 helicopters from a total inventory of 25, although they were due to be phased out of service in 2026 and the air force will run out of spare parts for them in 2023. As for their replacement, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković only hinted that the government was in discussions with the US on buying UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters.
The Czech Republic has donated 40 T-72 main battle tanks (MBTs) from its small army, while 90 more mothballed examples are being renovated by a private company — paid for by the US and Netherlands. Neighbouring Slovakia has given up its only squadron of fighter jets, 30 BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and an S-300 SAM system.
While the US has been the biggest contributor to arming the Kiev regime in money terms, Ukraine's western neighbour Poland has provided more heavy equipment than any other nation, including more than 230 T-72s, 40 BMP-1s, 72 AHS Krab armoured self-propelled heavy howitzers and various other artillery.
Milking the Cow
Political analyst and commentator Adriel Kasonta, a former chairman of the International Affairs Committee at the Bow Group think-tank, called attempts to draw NATO into the conflict a "tragedy," adding that "Many actors who have been hostile over the years and over the course of the special operation in Ukraine conducted by Russia [are] trying to use this tragic incident to their advantage."
The analyst stressed how the incident showed Poland needed to build up its own military capabilities, rather than pouring its equipment into the black hole
"If Polish air defence was good, it was meeting a military standard, it should see what happened. Predict what happened and provide the answers," Kasonta said.
"If Polish air defence was good, it was meeting a military standard, it should see what happened. Predict what happened and provide the answers," Kasonta said.
However, the commentator believes the Polish government is "malicious and clever" enough to take advantage of the "sad situation" in the village of Przewodow.
"They will say that, listen, we need more money," Kasonta said. "We need more equipment to be better prepared for possibility of such incidents in the future. So they will milk the cow and ask the United States to either send more equipment or in order to strengthen the eastern flank, send more American troops."
But citizens of western European countries are "reluctant to suffer" for Ukraine, which is neither a member of the European Union nor of NATO, he stressed.
"They are not willing to sacrifice the well-being of their own households at the expense of some war that could have been easily prevented if the West and especially United States would have granted a security guarantees to Russia," Kasonta said.
David T. Pyne, a former US Department of Defenсe officer and member of the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, told Sputnik that the Polish missile incident showed NATO countries should focus on their own defence, not militarising Ukraine.
"Even after he was presented with evidence that it was one of their own missiles, Ukrainian President Zelensky continued to claim that it was a Russian terror attack on Poland in the hopes that he could persuade NATO to escalate its proxy war against Russia," Pyne said.
He pointed out the yawning gap between Russia's extensive network of multi-layered and integrated early waring and SAM systems and NATO's handful of outdated and low-performance air defences — many of which are simply air-to-air missiles mounted on ground vehicles.
"NATO air and missile defences are much more limited than Russian national missile defences," Pyne said, stressing that "this incident as well as the various Russian military drones that have penetrated deep into NATO airspace underscore the need for NATO to greatly increase its missile defence capabilities."
But he added that the need to re-vamp the West's defence networks would by "greatly lessened if NATO were to recognize Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and support an immediate cease fire."
That should be followed by signing a "Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) II Treaty in which all western NATO troops and Russian troops were withdrawn from Eastern Europe including Ukraine and Belarus."
Russia has repeatedly warned NATO and other allies of the US against arming Ukraine since the start of its military operation on February 24, saying shipments of weapons into a warzone are legitimate targets.
Moscow has also said the flow of arms from the West will only prolong the conflict, which Washington is determine to fight to "the last Ukrainian."
Weaponry supplied to Ukraine has already turned up for sale on the black market across Europe. In August a US broadcaster pulled a documentary by a pro-Ukrainian filmmaker from its website which revealed that just a third of military aid actually made it to the front line. The Pentagon has now set up a 300-strong auditing task-force led by a three-star general at its Ramstein airbase in Germany to keep track of supplies.
