About the track (by Alda):

The song opened with Omnibus Law protesters chanting “Polisi Anjing, Polisi Anjing, Polisi Anjing” — sounds that honestly send me straight back home. It is our/Indonesian version of “Fuck The Police” (literal translation would say “Police are Dogs” except we say “anjing” all the time as you would use the word “fuck”. It's a versatile swear word).

Police Department in Indonesia started from being guards of the Dutch Colony’s “treasures” (loots) back in 1867. Then when Japanese colonise Indonesia, the Politie formed by the Dutch Colony then works under the Japanese official known as Sidhokan.

On a similar note; in Australia people talk about the problem being that so many of the white Australians are descendant from convicts, but ignore the real problem of just how many of them are descendants from British prison guards and military police.

“In July 2018, Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Chris Dawson formally apologized for the mistreatment of Aboriginal people at the hands of police, acknowledging the “significant role” the police played in the dispossession of Australia’s First Nations people. Dawson made particular reference to the way:
forceful removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities, the displacement of mothers and their children, sisters, fathers and brothers, the loss of family and resulting destruction of culture has had grave impacts
“Forced removal” references the unique role played by police in many settler colonies such as Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, the United States and Canada in relation to First Nations peoples: executing assimilationist policies designed to dismantle First Nations families.

[...] officers exercised often unfettered brutality in punitive frontier expeditions. This was in pursuit of pastoral land grabs, settler occupation and the disintegration of Aboriginal families.
This was a feature of the Native Police Forces that operated in various parts of Australia from the 1830s until the early 20th century.

[...] The use of police brutality extended beyond Native Police expeditions, and was characteristic of police powers more widely. The Colonial Frontier Massacres Map documenting massacres of First Nations families across Australia include extensive records of police killings, such as 60 Warlpiri, Anmatyere and Kaytetye women, men and children in the Coniston Massacre in 1928.
Police practices of neck chaining Aboriginal prisoners continued officially into the mid-20th century in parts of Australia.”

- The Conversation, Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia


How can we expect something that is made to protect the colonizer and maintain their power, to ever do anything to protect us the people? It is an illusion, and at best a cruel joke that we all are familiar with.

(Words by Alda)

Sources :

History of Indonesian police, based on Indonesian Police Department jatim.idntimes.com/news/jatim/axel-harianja/sejarah-kepolisian-ri-dari-patih-gajah-mada-hingga-markas-trunojoyo-regional-jatim

theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816

theconversation.com/enforcing-assimilation-dismantling-aboriginal-families-a-history-of-police-violence-in-australia-140637

www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/law/aboriginal-police-relations