Playing House
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Members of the Army’s Special Force in Irian Jaya are acting more like social workers than combat troops in a territorial and intelligence operation in the unsettled province.
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In a number of rooms measuring just 3 x 3 square meters sleep 40 young men. The barracks that houses those quarters once was home to lumberjacks of PT Hanurata, a forest concessionaire in Jayapura, Irian Jaya. Judging by the physique of the men, you’d think them security personnel of the timber company. But you’d be wrong.
They’re members of Kopassus, the elite force of the Indonesian Army—part of a 360-strong unit sent
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