Civil Coalition -Criticism on Recruitment of Tamtama Tni Massive

Jakarta – The Indonesian Army recruits prospective Tamtama candidates, as many as 24,000 people to form a new organizational structure in the form of developmental terical battalions. This recruitment is highlighted by the Civil Society Coalition for the Reform of the security sector that assesses the formation is not in line with the most important tasks of the TNI. Through this recruitment, soldiers will be prepared not to become battle forces, but to become food security forces for health officials. The community groups that are members of the Civil Society Coalition for the Security Sector Reform, namely Imnesty, Ylbhi, Contrast, PBHI, Amnesty International Indonesia, Elsam, Human Right Working Group (HRWG), Walhi, Setara Institute, Centra Initiative, Legal Aid Institute (LBH) Jakarta, Legal Aid Institute (LBH), Legal Aid Institute (LBH) Institute (LBH), Legal Aid Institute (LBH). The community, the Surabaya Pos Malang Legal Aid Institute (LBH), the Alliance for Papua Democracy (ALDP), Public Virtue, Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), the Independent Journalist Alliance (AJI) Jakarta, the association of the Archipelago indigenous peoples (PPMAN), Bem Si, De Jure. Browse to continue with the content of the Civil Society Coalition, assessed that the recruitment plan was outside the TNI’s most important task as a state defense tool. According to the Community Coalition, the TNI must be recruited, trained and trained for war and not to take care of business outside war such as agriculture, plantations, animal husbandry and health services. “The recruitment policy as planned to violate the main task of the TNI as a state defense instrument, as stipulated in the Constitution and the TNI Act itself,” the Civil Society Coalition on Wednesday (11/6/2025) told reporters. The coalition of civil society assesses that there is a change in the strategic environment and the threat of war that is increasingly complicated and modern requires the TNI to focus and have specific expertise in the field of war. Therefore, the coalition of civil society judges that the placement of the TNI to care for things outside the defense will actually weaken the TNI and make the TNI focus on facing the threat of the war itself and indirectly threatening the country’s sovereignty. “We judge, the Recruitment and involvement of the TNI is not to become a combat forces, but for issues such as agriculture, plantations, animal husbandry or health services is a form of failure to maintain a fixed demarcation limit between civil and military matters,” the statement of the coalition of civil society. Furthermore, the groups of civil society also highlighted the role of the TNI regulated in the Constitution of the Constitution of 1945 and the TNI Act. Based on the by -law, it has determined restrictions on the TNI that do not have the authority to care for agriculture, plantations, animal husbandry and health services. “It certainly injures the spirit of TNI reform that wants the formation of a professional TNI and no longer participates in civil matters,” he said. Therefore, the coalition of civil society calls on the government to oversee the recruitment and involvement of the TNI beyond its most important tasks and functions. “We call on the president and the DPR to carry out excessive supervision and evaluation of the Recruitment and involvement of the TNI, because it violated the TNI’s identity as a way of national defense in accordance with the mandate of the Constitution and the TNI Act,” he continued. (YLD/IMK) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here