No Positions for the General
Monday, August 16, 2021
After finishing his police training, Hoegeng became close with Sukarno. His relationship with Suharto was marked by a number of conflicts.
STANDING before a skinny youth, President Sukarno immediately lodged a complaint one day in 1952. He was facing a police officer named Hoegeng Iman Santoso who had just graduated from the National Police School (PTIK). “(President) Bung Karno said that the correct Javanese name should be ‘Sugeng’,” said Aditya Susanto, Hoegeng’s second child, to Tempo, at the end of July. Aditya heard about this encounter directly fr
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