Jakarta (Antara) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that all sides, particularly the police and the military, must learn a lesson from recent shooting incident at Cebongan prison so that the same thing would not be repeated. "I hope all sides would support the upholding of the law and learn a lesson from the incident so that the people will lead more orderly life in our country," the president told the press after attending the Friday prayer at the Presidential Palace complex here on Friday. The president said that he supported the steps taken by the military and the police in upholding the law. "Give them ample room to work professionally." He said that soon after he got information from the military and the police on the shooting at the Cebongan penitentiary, he instructed that the incident should be handled soon. "I make the instruction (to the police and the military) to professionally disclose and arrest the perpetrators, bring them to justice and uphold the law," the president said. He said that it should not happen that the state was accused of condoning the incident and ignoring justice and low enforcement. "We follow the process of all steps. The military, the Army in particular, already took the initiative to set up an investigation team while the police are continuing their investigation," Yudhoyono said. He said that the esprit de corps should be used for positive things, not negative ones. "Taking the law on one's hand is not justified in a country governed based on the law," he said. He added: "I know that the incident had taken place because there was corps solidarity. There was the behavior of a group of people who were called thugs who sadistically killed a member of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus). That raised the sense of their corps solidarity and fueled their emotion. They then took an action (attack detainees at Cebongan prison), which could neither be justified." (*)


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