Dirgahayu Bhayangkara

Mungkin kalau hari ini saya tidak meng-akses Kaskus.us, saya tidak akan tahu bahwa bapak-bapak dan ibu-ibu Polisi kita sedang berulah....eh, maksudnya berultah (yang ulang tahun profesinya, bukan individunya lho ya). Memang negara ini punya banyak hari-hari bernama, beberapa penting untuk diingat seperti Hari Kemerdekaan yang bertanggal merah, dan beberapa sangat tidak penting karena tidak libur.

Nah, apakah Hari Bhayangara ini penting? Pertama, karena hari ini tidak libur, jadi masuk kategori tidak penting sesuai definisi sebelumnya. Tapi tunggu dulu, suatu ulang tahun bisa menjadi sangat penting bagi pihak-pihak yang terafiliasi, dan sayangnya sebagai warga negara Indonesia, mau tidak mau saya memiliki afiliasi dengan Polisi. Maka dari itu harus dianggap penting (lagian mumpung saya ingat hari ini HUT Polri--")

Sebuah Ulang Tahun alangkah baiknya untuk dirayakan dengan melihat ke belakang, kepada hal-hal yang telah tercapai sebelumnya. Dan sewajarnya hal-hal yang baik terus ditingkatkan, yang jelek disembunyikan (seperti biasanya). Untuk HUT yang ini adalah HUT ke-63. Sudah selama itulah polisi melayani masyarakat. apakah kita merasa telah terlayani dengan baik? mungkin untuk beberapa masalah jawabannya "ya", sedangkan masalah-masalah lainnya jawabannya "ya...ya jelas enggak lah". Jadi apa saja sih yang membuat orang tidak pernah puas dengan kinerja polisi? bukankah mereka punya cerita sukses nembakin teroris? nangkapin pedagang narkotik? Melancarkan Lalu Lintas (walau sering kabur disaat situasi tidak terkendali)? ngerazia SIM? ngawal konvoi Harley? Polisi dan segala kompleksitasnya...itulah yang menurutsaya selalu membuat orang tidak puas....

Polisi adalah pekerjaan yang penuh tantangan, mereka adalah garis depan penegakan hukum di Indonesia. Artinya, mereka harus tahu hukum. Bukan cuma dasar-dasarnya tetapi juga segi praktisnya. Kesalahan di bidang hukum ini bisa-bisa membuat seorang penjahat lolos dari hukuman atau, yang lebih buruk lagi, orang tidak bersalah malah mendapat hukuman.

Polisi terkadang ditempatkan di posisi yang sulit. Hal ini menurut saya menyababkan kinerja mereka sedikit terganggu dan polisi tidak bisa sepenuhnya disalahkan (tandanya mereka tetap salah walaupun sedikit). Polisi sebagai penegak Undang-undang, haruslah patuh kepada Undang-undang tersebut. Masalahnya UU di Indonesia banyak yang kacau! Kenapa? Soalnya anggota DPR pada tidur! Kok bisa? Namanya juga Indonesia...nah, kekacauan hukum ini yang kadang membuat polisi bingung dengan wewenangnya. Mana yang jatahnya dia, jatahnya kejaksaan, KPK, Dishub, Hansip, sering jadi tidak jelas. Ahirnya melayanglah efisiensi kerja para polisi itu...salahnya polisi? belum tentu. Karena pihak lain juga tidak tau apa-apa saja jatah mereka.

Polisi juga ditempatkan di posisi yang rawan penyelewengan, baik oleh mafia peradilan maupun mafia kepolisian sendiri. Kadang penyidik di lapangan sudah beres dan bersih kerjanya, atasannya tiba-tiba dapat mobil baru. Kadang polisinya sudah bener semua, Jaksa atau Hakimnya sudah dapat mobil yang harusnya dikasih ke atasan polisi tadi. Atau mungkin semua sudah dapat mobil gratis, beda-beda tipenya berdasarkan pangkat dan "keemberan" masing-masing. Polisi bekerja dan menyandarkan keberhasilannya pada suatu sistem yang mana variabelnya berkaitan erat satu sama lain. Sistem inilah saudara-saudaraku sekalian yang seringkali terkontaminasi di bangsa ini...salahnya polisi? bisa ya bisa tidak.


Adakalanya juga polisi memperlakukan sesuatu dengan tidak sepantasnya...contohnya membuat SIM yang mudah (dengan cara membiarkan calo-calo berkeliaran bebas di kantor polisi) dan mempersulit warga yang mau melaporkan pencurian. Mereka kerap berperan sebagai pengatur daripada teman dari masyarakat. Dalam prakteknya Polisi sering berperan sebagai hakim di tempat untuk menyelesaikan perkara-perkara kecil. Dengan image yang tidak friendly masyarakat tidak akan menganggap mereka sebagai "pihak yang akan menolong menyelesaikan masalah", tetapi lebih sebagai "pihak yang kalau tidak diturutin malah lebih gawat urusannya". Hal ini penting mengingat kepercayaan publik sangat penting dalam sukses tidaknya kinerja Kepolisian. Kerjasama antara Polisi dengan seluruh pihak akan menjamin penegakan hukum yang lebih baik (walaupun kalau semua taat hukum, Polisi pada nganggur dan magabut kaya' di Singapura)

Dongeng saya di atas menunjukkan bahwa umur Polisi yang semakin tua, malah menimbulkan berbagai masalah yang harus mereka hadapi. Manusia selalu berkembang, apalagi penjahatnya. Dan sangat sulit memang untuk memiliki fleksibilitas agar bisa mengikuti perkembangan tersebut. Happy anniversary Cops Dude! Semoga makin tua makin bijaksana!


The Party...

This is merely a result of "nothing-to-do-day"

the Green Frog is Ricky, The Brown Dog is Pierre. and Jun is the Pink Rabbit. I will post some individual review and photograph for each of them soon enough (if I remember:D)

enjoy:D

1:1 Gundam, and Those Crazy Japanese

Now this is insane!


This is not a work of photo editing, this is the Real Deal! A 1:1 scale Gundam is almost open for public in Japan!

This probably shows how the Japanese is always a step ahead of us. I'll explain the "a step ahead of us" part later on, because now I wonder what are the reason behind them being so smart? maybe the double nukes that blown up in their neighborhood creates this brain mutation as well as motivation... Take a look at the example like in technology, economy, etc. By the time Smart Phone becomes a hype in our society, every Japanese people already have one, even those who are not so smart have a Smart Phone. That explain why the Japanese are not so excited about iPhone. When we are being ignored by Microsoft in selling their Xbox360, Microsoft go crazy buying lots of Playstation 3's exclusive titles just to increase their market in Japan. When our government officials are trying their best to avoid being put at fault or resigning from their position if they're indeed proven so, their government officials are already killing themselves (literally) when they have scandals.

When I ,as a Gundam enthusiast (and I believe it's not only me), am complaining that the prize of aGundam model-kit always increases, the Japanese built a 1:1 Gundam...They're like mocking at us! They build such majestic-jawdroping-nonsense if I may say. I mean, why do they build this 1:1 Gundam? It is definitely not for Bandai's market reason. Without this 1:1, Bandai still getting lots of money from the people that complains about the increasing prize of a model-kit. My best guess is that it is build for attracting people to come to some amusement park located there. My second best guess is, that it is for some lazy blogger have something to write on their blog...for that I thank the Japanese.

Maybe some nation have something their good at and something they're not good at. I take that as part of how human we are as well as how nations are. As for the comparison with the Japanese, well, at least we know how to cook fish, and they don't.

All photos are credits to this lucky guy who had the chance to see it live!

The Call of Duty

The heart of the armed forces is its soldier. Can't have no soldier without recruitment. And the best way to recruit new soldier is by selling the armed forces through good advertisement. I get this idea after seeing U.S Navy's advertisement in a video game magazine.Sorry due to the low quality of the picture, but I'm gonna tell what's on the writing below the image of that machine. It says:

"Because bomb-sniffing does not work well underwater"

Then those tiny letters on the lower part of the picture says:

"It locates and destroys underwater mines at the command of an operator who's nowhere in the vicinity. And it's just one example of the cutting-edge technology you'll be able to get your hands on when you become a proud part of the U.S. Navy. To learn more, visit navy.com or call 1-800-USA-NAVY"

This is what I called good piece of advertisement. It delivers the message just right, it understands the target, packaged and placed in the proper media.

This advertisement is placed on a Video Game Magazine. As we all know, joining the Navy means that you are going to get your ass whoop the Rambo style. I heard stories that they will drown you to find out that you actually, well...drowned. Now people who played video games, as we can imagine with our wildest imagination, are hard to drag and trained with military 101 lesson. So you can't just put an advertisement saying "Join the Navy, and we'll train all day long!" or "Join the Navy, then you could only Play at your Station" or maybe "Join the Navy, and we'll drown you!". People who are addicted to video games are tends to be the one with high interest of technology. They want to try new toys, exciting things, but minus the training and drowning. So tell them to join the Navy. But isn't normal human brain will relate Navy with usual armed forces discipline and training? or worst, Pearl Harbor? Then don't tell those thing on the advertisement. Just like the advertisement above, tell those gamers that Navy is giving out new toys! Therefore the chance of those gamers pissing their pants even before they line up to get a military style haircut might be reduced (giving more stylish cut could also help them not to wet their pants actually).

Another piece of advertisement I founds on the internet is this:
Yup, don't need to tell you what's the writing there. I don't really know where is this advertisement is being put, but I think that it is perfect to be put in a store selling hiking/backpacking stuffs. You probably already see the big idea of this advertisement. It's to tell those adventure lover that by joining the Navy, instead of spending your money on travel cost, you'll get free adventure and getting paid as a soldier! It's basically an all win situation for you! And an all win situation is what everyone is looking for. Maybe an advertisement in a fishing equipment store would say that the Navy would lead you to great fishing spot all over the world.

In the Documentary movies made by Michael Moore, the Fahrenheit 9/11, it shows how the recruitment officer of U.S Navy tries to convince this dude who like music. The conversation goes very much like this:

Military Recruitment Officer aka Military Dude: Hey, wanna join the Navy?
Music Dude: emmmmm, I don't know
Military Dude: Well, what are the things that you like the most?
Music Dude: emm, music? playing bands...
Military Dude: oh, by joining the Navy, you can play in the Navy's band, you'll have concert all around the world! sound interesting?
Music Dude: I guess so...

So the Navy is suddenly become a place to conduct your hobby instead of defending your country. Not that it is something wrong though, because the Military Dude's main concern is how to get more people (sounds like a Multi-Level Marketing) in any means necessary allowed by the law. Is it working? well at least the music dude is guessing that Navy is indeed interesting.

Now let's see a recruitment pamphlet on from my country
Looks a bit boring...and I haven't seen any advertisement not the similar type as this one. Don't mind the requirements on the right side, its just the stiff looking people on the left side of the picture is creating this not fun atmosphere. the only good news of this advertisement is that it clearly states the free of charge registration.

I think that these day's recruitment advertising does not have to look so patriotic. Because each and every people already have their own definition of a patriot. Even George W. Bush claimed that he is a patriot. So blowing up issues on patriotism is somehow out of date. You have to make the Armed forces at least looks exciting. Therefore, instead of saying that you'll get your ass whoop Rambo style no matter what, the Navy say that it would be an adventure. Instead of saying that you might get your butt shot by Somalian Pirates, the Navy says that you'll get your hands on the latest technology. The Navy tells you that you'll sniff the underwater bomb, without saying that the bomb might sniff back at you (and boom!). It all comes down to which way recruits more people.