A CHANCE assignment placed a young woman to witness the last days of President Sukarno. Putu Sugianitri, graduated from the Police Women's Brigadier School in Sukabumi, West Java, on the very same day that the September 30, 1965 conflict exploded. At that time, Putu was nave and apolitical.

Not long after she joined the police force, Putu, who is now 60 years old, was assigned to the security detail of the president's family at the Palace. The polit