Senior journalist Herry Komar died last Monday from a heart attack. Danuta, Herrys first child said that his father had never complained of a heart problem. Herry, born in Tanjung Ampalu, West Sumatra in 1946, only had a slight fever after attending the National Press Day commemoration in Bandung.

After joining Tempo weekly magazine since it was first established in 1971, Herry was entrusted as the executive editor before the government banned Tem