The Dead Sergeant’s Secret
A controversy is raging over the death of a sergeant at an office of Ansor, the youth movement of Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama. It has been linked with alleged presidential aid to Irian Jaya’s sick pro-independence chief.
April 17, 2001
Chief Sergeant Aliman’s body lies in its grave in the Astono Ratu Kauman cemetery. It is two weeks since it was buried there, in his home town of Demak, Central Java. But his ghost, it seems, is still not quite at rest. Controversy still rages about how and why the marine died, and there are suspicions of a link to the palace.
Was he killed in a row over ‘hospital fees’ for Irian Jaya separatist leader Theys Eluay? Or was it ju
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