April Fools

Sergeant Major Aliman was known as a 'presidential guard' and a former hired thug to Aris Junaidi. So what did payment of a separatist’s medical expenses have to do with his death?

April 10, 2001

Aris Junaidi’s name has featured prominently in the newspapers three times—always on the crime pages and always in mysterious circumstances. Fifteen years ago many local papers reported that he had killed a young woman in his home village of Kudus in Central Java. (Aris says that he was subsequently proved innocent). A year ago he once again came under the media spotlight—this time in the national papers. His name was linked wit

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