Indonesian Police Screw Themselves Up

Mishandling of stadium riot highlights fact there is no impetus for reform

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and National Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo are caught in the coils of trying to resurrect the credibility of the national police, shattered by a massive murder-sex scandal in July that claimed the career of one of its most powerful officials and tarnished dozens of junior officers, and later demolished further b…