Sidelined Battlefield Heroes

THEY have the same attributes on their shoulders: shiny stars. They are considered to have given service in smoothing the way for the New Order in 1965-66. And they are all officers from RPKAD, which later changed its name to Kopassus, the special service whose glory days were the days of President Suharto. The glory of these battlefield heroes reached its peak in 1997-98, when General Feisal Tanjung was ABRI commander. Nearly all the key positio...