It's A Jungle Out There

Not only military experts have trained members of the elite kopassus and kostrad forces, civilians have also lent them a guiding hand or two.

April 24, 2001

In the middle of a virgin Papuan forest, a foreign soldier complains, "Only James Bond could save these hostages." This soldier had come to Papua as a member of a 1996 rescue operation in search of two members from the Lorentz Expedition—they had been hijacked in Mapenduma by a prominent figure of the Free Papua Movement, Kelly Kwalik. The soldier had been plunged into a situation seemingly beyond his control. Joining in with th

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