Deserting Ranks

More than 400 Indonesian soldiers have gone AWOL. Is the lack of benefits the main cause?

February 4, 2003

MASTER Sergeant Dudung draws his jacket collar tighter. Despite zipping it up to his neck, Lembang's cold still cuts through the parachute jacket issued by his unit. He can already feel the cold in his bones, despite having dropped off just one passenger all night.

He had almost gone for the kick start of his Yamaha RXS motorcycle when a woman approached. "To Parongpong," said the woman while taking a seat on the back of the motorcycle. Dudun

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