Diplomacy and Business

JAKARTA, July 26, 1966. Just one day after Suharto became the acting President, I was free. All happened so suddenly. In the morning, lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution appeared at the Setia Budi Detention House, Central Jakarta. He distributed letters of release for all the detainees quarantined there. “Gentlemen, you are free, OK. All may go home. Dismiss!”

Not a single family member knew of the release. The Military Police that guarded the deta

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