TNI’s Dual Function

WITH fiery conviction, Abdul Haris Nasution delivered an unscripted speech to cadets at the National Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java, on November 12, 1958. He declared he did not want the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to resemble the military of Latin America, which had become a political force. Yet, “We also do not want to imitate the model of Western Europe or Eastern Europe, where the military becomes a dead tool of the gove