Herry Heryawan’s book, Green Policing, is a serious endeavor to shift the policing discourse from being a mere instrument of law enforcement to becoming an architect of ecological civilization. Amidst an environmental crisis that increasingly exposes the failures of governance, this approach presents the police not as officers standing at the tail end of conflicts, but as an institution working at the upstream of public consciousness.
Green Policing, as proposed in this book, serves as a philosophical repositioning. It compels us to rethink: is security merely a matter of social order, or is it also about ecological sustainability? Within this framework, Herry, who also serves as the Regional Police Chief of Riau demonstrates that state authority can be built through environmental restoration and the simultaneous recovery of public trust.
I view this book as both an intellectual experiment and a policy praxis. It opens a space for dialogue between the state and its citizens toward a single shared interest: saving the future. If the police are able to stand at the intersection of law and environmental ethics, it is there that the state regains its moral legitimacy.
Rocky Gerung
Founder of Tumbuh Institute
