EVEN in his twilight years, Moelyono still remembers one particular pupil at the Kediri 1 State Senior High School in East Java, almost 50 years ago. The pupil was Hadi Poernomo, the son of the Kediri regency secretary. "He wasn't popular," said 75-year-old Moelyono late last month. But Hadi stood out in algebra and mathematics-the courses taught by Moelyono. "He was also clever at bookkeeping."

After graduating from senior high school, Hadi took a job