Omar Dani and Halim Perdana Kusuma

Omar Dani's Plea offers up a new fact regarding Bung Karno's presence at the Halim Perdana Kusuma air base. It's another piece of information from an actor with a role in history, muzzled for 30 years.

January 30, 2001

"That day, October 1, 1965, around 08:30, a VW beetle and a jeep entered the front yard of the Operational Command (Koops) headquarters. Lt. Col. Soeparto, who drove the VW, and a guard sitting beside him got out hurriedly…

The last man to leave the car was Bung Karno, who was accompanied by Brig. Gen. Soenarjo, the Junior Attorney General. Bung Karno was met by Minister/Air Force Commander Air Marshal Omar Dani and Koops Commander Air Commo

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