inp.polri.go.id - Semarang. Muhammadiyah Central Chairman Haedar Nashir believes that the idea of ​​placing the Indonesian National Police (INP) under a specific ministry is irrelevant to the direction of national reform that Indonesia has been undertaking since 1998.

Haedar made this statement after attending an event at Muhammadiyah University in Semarang on Thursday evening (1/29/2026).

He believes that the reforms that have been underway for more than two decades have placed strategic state institutions directly under the President.

"Indonesia has been undergoing reform for more than 20 years, with all its risks and important achievements. One of the results of the 1998 reforms was placing key institutions directly under the President," Haedar said.

He emphasized that rather than further changing institutional structures, the nation should focus on strengthening and consolidating the reforms already underway. He believes that structural changes have the potential to create new, non-substantive problems.

Haedar continued, Muhammadiyah believes that various problems arising within state institutions, including the INP, Indonesian National Military (TNI), and other government agencies, are more appropriately resolved through internal reform.

Haedar also believes the House of Representatives' (DPR) decision to keep INP under the President aligns with the platform and spirit of national reform since 1998.

He believes this view is also shared by various other community organizations, namely, encouraging the strengthening of internal reform as part of democratic consolidation, both at the central and regional levels.

"The views of these community organizations generally encourage reform from within as part of democratic consolidation," Haedar concluded.

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