Stars & Cars
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
THE trouble in the force goes back at least as far as Abdurrahman Wahid's final weeks as president, and in fact helped hasten the end of his brief administration. A few days before he was ousted, Wahid appointed General Chaeruddin Ismail, a noted reformist, as the new national police chief. He was to replace Surojo Bimantoro, who had publicly defied Wahid's orders. Bimantoro refused to go and Chaeruddin's appointment as police chief was the fin
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