Major General Sjafrie Sjamsuddin has recently been named chief of the TNI (Indonesian Military)'s information service, an appointment that is being rejected by many parties.

Those rejecting him—except, perhaps, for the women who are attracted to this good-looking man from Makassar—believe that Sjafrie failed to safeguard Jakarta when rioting broke out in May 1998. Wasn't it the Joint Fact-Finding Team that reported some 50 women wer