A Pre-Election Coup
Sintong Panjaitan published a book which reveals a struggle between the military elite in 1998. The exploits of Prabowo Subianto and his group are frequently mentioned. People close to Prabowo suspect this is an attack on his presidential candidacy.
March 17, 2009
SPEAKING to hundreds of participants at the National Workers Conference, on Thursday last week, Prabowo Subianto joked, “If I had met all of you in the past, I really would have carried out a coup.” The participants at Grand Cempaka Hotel, Central Jakarta, shouted in support. They gave a warm welcome to this former commander of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad).
This presidential candidate from the Grand Indonesia Movement (Gerin
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