When Sardjono Kartosoewirjo received the call from the office of the West Java Special Command for the Restoration of Security & Order, he trembled. In 1975, he was still in his third year of lower secondary school. The call from the army to appear before them, came at a time when the New Order government was in the process of establishing its power. It deeply worried the 18-year-old.

Together with his mother, two older siblings and Darul Isla