Wiranto: I will clarify all at the right time
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
AT one time, Wiranto and the highest authority in the country were as close as a thumbnail. Three days before he announced his resignation, former President Suharto gave Presidential Instruction No. 16/1998 to General Wiranto, then the Indonesian Armed Forces commander. The entire country noted that historical date: May 18, 1998.
The decree gave Wiranto almost unlimited authority to restore stability from the chaos engulfing the nation. It was eeri
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