THERE was something peculiar at the parade of soldiers on the Armed Forces’ birthday in 1993. From year to year, artillery that accompanied the rows of troops lined up before President Suharto remained mostly unchanged. Suharto whispered his concern over this to the then Army Chief of Staff (KSAD), General Wismoyo Arismundar. When a unit of tanks passed by, what the president saw were tanks identical to what he had used as a military office