A ‘Bugis’ Tale
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
IT was one morning in March 1983. The mood at the Headquarters of the 81st Detachment/Sandi Yudha Anti-Terror Force Command (Kopassandha) in Cijantung, East Jakarta, was tense. All of the units present at “Bugis”—the code name for the headquarters of this elite unit—were ready to roll. Major Luhut Pandjaitan, commander of the 81st Detachment, who at the time had just arrived, was surprised to see the tense situation. “What’s going on?�
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