The Ranks of the Resentful
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
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THE late-afternoon chat held at a downtown Jakarta government office was actually quite lively. But the uniformed men engrossed in swapping stories were actually lamenting their bad luck. They had been wearing their jasmine flower rank badges with three berries for more than five years. “Soldiers usually stay at this rank for a long time. There is no guarantee that they will become generals,” one of them said. His two fellow officers
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