Kepala Detasemen Markas (Denma) AKBP Pamudji telah tewas ditembak di Polda Metro Jaya kemarin malam. Diduga, korban ditembak oleh anak buahnya sendiri.

Menanggapi kasus ini, anggota Komisi III DPR Harry Witjaksono juga meminta agar Wakapolri Komjen Pol Badrodin Haiti turun untuk menyelesaikan kasus ini. Sebab, masalah internal kepolisian ada di tangan Wakapolri.

"Tugas Wakapolri menegakkan disiplin Polri, terlepas masalahnya apapun itu, tembak-tembakan polisi itu juga bisa membuat disiplin runtuh," ujar Harry di Gedung DPR, Jakarta, Rabu (19/3).

Dia mendesak kasus ini harus segera diselesaikan dengan tuntas. Menurut dia, akibat kasus ini akan menimbulkan ketidakpercayaan masyarakat kepada institusi Polri.

"Saya juga minta Badrodin untuk menegakkan disiplin setegak-tegaknya," tegas dia.

Untuk dapat menghindari hal serupa terjadi kembali, Harry juga berpendapat, agar Polri terus memeriksa psikologis para anggotanya. Khususnya bagi mereka yang dipercaya memegang senjata api. "Secara berkala harus diperiksa psikologisnya. Masih layak engak megang pistol," tegas dia.

Dia juga berpesan kepada Kapolda Metro Jaya baru, Irjen Dwi Prayitno agar mengawasi anak buahnya. Sebab hal ini dapat mencoreng citra kepolisian.

"Harus menegakkan disiplin pada anggota, malu di depan masyarakat. Gimana kita mau memberikan rasa aman kepada masyarakat kalau antar polisi saling tembak," ujarnya.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.

Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.

“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”

Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.