Genderal Surojo Bimantoro: "I will hand over the commander's baton to the DPR"
Tuesday, July 24, 2001
The president and his supporters eventually managed to persuade the DPR to accept Bimantoro's appointment, albeit with conditions. But the president subsequently made the same mistake again when he "fired" Bimantoro and appointed Gen. Chaerudin Ismail without the agreement of the DPR. So the situation was turned on its head and Bimantoro became a pawn of the DPR in its war with the president.
Whoever was in the right, the peace b
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