Word: murtopo
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Indonesians sometimes view their political power struggles as a kind of wayang, the traditional all-night puppet show in which the villains die at dawn. For four main players in President Suharto's government, dawn finally came last week. All were generals, and two of them-Ali Murtopo and Sudjono Humardani-were members of the hated Aspri, the influential kitchen cabinet. One non-Aspri was General Sutomo Yuwono, head of the internal intelligence agency. The other was General Sumitro, boss of the security force Kopkamtib. Suharto stripped him of the Kopkamtib command and took personal charge of the secret...
...General Murtopo, meanwhile, was muttering about the laxity of law and order, warning student rebels that in the future they would "have to step over my dead body." With these hard-line actions, both generals seemed to be trying to line up support from conservative elements in the military who were appalled at the students' violent behavior...
...left eleven people dead, 807 automobiles gutted and 144 buildings damaged, the government retaliated. It shut down nine newspapers and arrested 775 persons, including 21 of Jakarta's most prominent intellectuals. The government's aim, declared one of the President's personal assistants, General Ali Murtopo-who had been accused of corruption and burned in effigy by students -must be to eliminate the country's "intolerable subversive elements...
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