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...scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says his men came under fire three weeks before, while patrolling the village. "We wanted to return fire but there were children in the way," he recalls. Contact with locals is minimal. "Most people want to talk to us," he believes, "but they're just too scared." Scared, he means, of reprisals...
...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 police...
...Mere Puppets. Suharto's moves cut short political maneuvering by two dangerous rivals who had helped him topple former Dictator Sukarno in 1966. Roly-poly Sumitro, a golfing partner ("My stomach is my handicap") of the President, had sought to build up a following with students. When he was reported as favoring "new national leadership," Sumitro immediately denied that he had ever thought of calling for Suharto's replacement. But to political observers it looked like a slip 'twixt cup and coup. After last month's student riots during Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka's visit...
...their areas with cool efficiency and a minimum of corruption. Soon the colonels were joined, uninvited, by some of Indonesia's top anti-Communist politicians. Among them: Masjumi Party Chairman Mohammed Natsir; Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, governor of the Bank of Indonesia; ex-Premier Burhanuddin Harahap; onetime Finance Minister Sumitro Djojohadikusumo...
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