HIS name was Suhaimi Munaf, a politician from the Islamic Tarbiyah Movement Party (Perti) at the end of the 1950s. Because his political views tended to lean left, at that time this native of West Sumatra had access to a good network in Jakarta with diplomats from communist countries. He would often travel, visiting Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, Cuba.

His life changed after the September 30 Movement (G30S) in 1965. After that, all members and sym