Regional Police Chief Meets Tanjung Karang Permai Residents in Mataram, Lombok

Public order rarely appears in a property brochure, yet it is one of the first things a careful buyer asks about a new neighbourhood. On Wednesday 21 October 2026, the regional police chief of West Nusa Tenggara spent time with residents of Tanjung Karang Permai, a neighbourhood in Mataram, the main city on Lombok island.

What the source reports

Radar Lombok reports that the meeting, called 'Polisi Kumpul Bersama Masyarakat' (roughly, 'Police Gather With the Community'), was held at the village office (kantor lurah) of Tanjung Karang Permai, in Sekarbela sub-district, Mataram. The event was framed as a way to hear residents' views and to strengthen public order, known in Indonesian as kamtibmas.

Date: Wednesday 21 October 2026 Place: Village office of Tanjung Karang Permai, Sekarbela sub-district, Mataram Stated aim: Hear residents and strengthen public order

The report argues that keeping order takes more than patrols and law enforcement, and that it also depends on communication and closeness between police and the public. That is the report's framing of the event. The excerpt available to us is a short summary and does not list the issues raised, any follow-up steps, or any figures, so we do not add them here.

Why community policing is on the agenda

Community policing, meaning police work built on regular contact with residents rather than on patrols and enforcement alone, is a familiar idea in many countries. The report presents the meeting in those terms. It does not describe a new policy, a change in deployment or a trend in incidents, and this article will not supply one.

Some terms need a note for readers outside Indonesia. Kamtibmas is shorthand for keamanan dan ketertiban masyarakat, public security and order. A kapolda is the head of the police in a province, and a lurah leads a kelurahan, an urban village unit below the sub-district. A meeting at a lurah's office is therefore an encounter between a provincial police leader and residents at the level where everyday concerns usually reach the authorities first.

How this fits the wider picture on Lombok

HubLombok's market coverage concentrates on South Lombok, around Kuta, Selong Belanak, Are Guling, Mandalika, Mawun and Bumbang. This report concerns Mataram, the island's main city and a different setting from the south coast areas that most property coverage on this site describes. It does not mention Kuta, Mandalika, Are Guling or any other area covered elsewhere on HubLombok, and nothing in it should be read as a comment on those places.

What this means for investors

For a buyer, a police meeting in one Mataram neighbourhood is an event, not a market signal. It contains no price, no yield, no occupancy rate and no crime figure, and this article does not add any of them. The verified market figures HubLombok uses for South Lombok property come from its own fact base and are unchanged by this story.

Careful investors separate three kinds of information: news about events, official statistics, and property-specific documents. News reports like this one describe individual moments. Public information about local security should come from official sources, including the regional police and the local government. Questions about a specific property, such as title, zoning and encumbrances, belong with a licensed notary or legal adviser who checks the land office records for that plot, because no community meeting can answer them.

Whether this style of community engagement becomes a sustained part of policing in Mataram is a question the official record will answer over time, not any single press report.

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