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Current Data on the Indonesian Military Elite September 1 ,1993 C urrent Data on the Indonesian M ilitary Elite September 1 ,1993-September 30,1995 The Editors The present listing of the holders of key military positions shows that the twenty-five months since the terminal date of our last complete listing, September 1,1994 (Indonesia 56 [October 1994]), particularly the last eight months since February 1995, has been a period of tumultuous change, both at the Armed Forces Headquarters and the Army central and regional commands. We note, to underscore the volatility of the situation, that ninety-four transfers took place in our listing in the first nine months of 1995, while fifty-three, eighty- one, and fifty-one transfers took place in 1992, 1993, and 1994 respectively. These changes are directly related to the replacement of the Presidential brother-in-law, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Wismoyo Arismunandar, in February 1995, by Gen. R. Hartono, and more importantly, to the rise of a new generation of officers to key positions. Armed Forces' Commander-in-Chief Gen. Feisal Tanjung publicly referred to this in August 1994 as a "regenerasi." '1 Before turning to the military politics of the last twenty-five months, however, it is useful, in accordance with our past practice, to consider the structural aspects of the changes in terms of ethnic backgrounds, military specialization, graduating class at the Military Academy, and age. Ethnic Background In terms of ethnic background, no significant change can be observed in a long-standing pattern by which about two-thirds of the listed office holders are Javanese. Of the officers of whose ethnic identity we are reasonably sure, thirty-six out of sixty-two officers (58 percent) at the supra-Korem level are Javanese, while the Sundanese, five officers in total (8 percent), are a distant second. Given the conscious recruitment policy of achieving ethnic diversity at the Military Academy, it is not surprising to find a fairly wide, if numerically thin, 1 See The Editors, "Current Data on the Indonesian Military Elite: September 1 ,1993-Aug. 31,1994," in Indonesia 58 (October 1994): 86. 102 The Editors distribution of other ethnicities, and in fact the first Irianese officer, graduate of the Naval Academy Class 1971, was recently promoted to the general officer's rank in the navy as the most recent addition to the ethnic diversity of the Indonesian military.2 The actual distributions of officers at the supra-Korem level are as follows: Javanese 36 Balinese 2 Indo 1 Sundanese 5 Madurese 2 Karo Batak 1 Buginese 3 Sipirok Batak 2 Menadonese 1 Mandailing Batak 3 Acehnese 13 Siak Malay 1 Minangkabau 3 Bolang-Mongondouw 1 unknown 13 Military Specialization As we often noted in previous listings, officers with backgrounds in intelligence and the special forces (RPKAD) are salient in this listing, too. It is no doubt because of the career opportunities created by the long counter-insurgency campaigns in Irian Jaya, East Timor, and Aceh and the central importance of intelligence officers for internal security and social and political affairs on behalf of Soeharto's Pancasila democracy. It is often said that the assistants for intelligence and social and political affairs, along with the assistant for oper­ ations, are three most important among assistants to the Kodam chief-of-staff. Though the information is quite incomplete, we can identify nine from the RPKAD and seven officers with intelligence backgrounds at the supra-Korem level, while three from the RPKAD and four with intelligence backgrounds are identified at the Korem level. Class Membership The available data offer the following pattern: Class Supra- Korem Total Previous Listing Korem 2 (1961) i 0 i i 3 (1962) i 0 i 8 4 (1963) i 0 i 4 5 (1964) 2 0 2 2 6 (1965) 22 0 22 12 7 (1966) 11 1 12 15 8 (1967) 3 0 3 4 9 (1968) 2 2 4 3 10 (1969) 0 0 0 0 11 (1970) 4 1 5 0 12 (1971) 3 3 6 0 13 (1972) 0 1 1 0 14 (1973) 0 3 3 0 15 (1974) 0 2 2 0 unknown 11 46 57 - The data show that Class 6 now dominates both the Armed Forces Headquarters (eight officers) and the Army central command (nine officers), while Classes 6 and 7 share control 2 Freddy Numberi, bom in Serui, Irian Jaya, on October 15,1947, was promoted to first admiral on October 3, 1995. Angkatan Bersenjata, October 5,1995. Military Data 103 of the Army Regional Commands (five Class 6 officers and seven Class 7 officers). The data at the Korem level are too incomplete to say anything meaningful, but given the fact that Classes 11 and 12 produced their first brigadier generals and Class 15 its first Korem commanders early this year, it is safe to say that the majority of Korem commanders are now from Classes 11-14.3 Age Distribution The information, quite incomplete, is as follows. Birth Year Supra-Korem Korem Total Previous Listing 1937 0 0 0 i 1938 0 0 0 0 1939 1 0 1 4 1940 0 0 0 7 1941 2 0 2 8 1942 11 1 12 3 1943 10 0 10 11 1944 4 0 4 4 1945 2 0 2 4 1946 1 0 1 0 1947 1 1 2 1 1948 0 0 0 0 1949 0 1 1 0 1950 0 0 0 0 1951 0 2 2 0 The great majority of officers at the supra-Korem level were thus born during the Japanese occupation; were newly commissioned officers or cadets at the Military Academy when Soeharto came to power in March 1966; and were in their mid-thirties at the invasion of East Timor in late 1975. The majority of Korem commanders, on the other hand, were most likely bom in 1947-1950 during the revolutionary period; were at high school or at the Military Academy at ages sixsteen to nineteen when Soeharto came to power; and were twenty-five to twenty-eight years old at the time of invasion of East Timor. The two truly post-independence generation officers, bom in 1951 and from Class 15 (1974), are classmates of Col. Prabowo, presidential son-in-law and deputy commander of Kopassus. Transfer Timing The timing of transfers at the Supra-Korem and Korem levels is as follows: Supra-Korem Korem Total 1993 Sept. 3 i 4 Oct. - - - Nov. 1 i 2 Dec. - 5 5 1994 Jan. 10 1 11 Feb. 3 3 6 Mar. 1 1 2 3 See Angkatan Bersenjata, March 25,1995, and Suara Pembaharuan, April 11,1995. 104 The Editors Apr.___________ 3___________2________ 5 Supra-Korem Korem Total May - - - June - 1 1 July i 4 5 Aug. 4 2 6 Sept. 7 1 8 Oct. - 2 2 Nov. 1 1 1 Dec. 3 1 4 1995 Jan. 1 1 2 Feb. 5 2 7 Mar. 25 4 29 Apr. 4 3 7 May 2 6 8 June 8 9 17 July 4 - 4 Aug. 6 3 9 Sept. 8 3 11 The data shows two interesting features. First, a wave of transfers took place at the supra-Korem level since the appointment of Gen. Feisal Tanjung as Armed Forces' Com- mander-in-Chief, every half a year in 1993 and 1994, and three times in the first nine months of 1995, in February-March, June, and August-September. These reshuffles were aimed at easing out Benny Murdani's men, to serve as palace countermeasures against Gen. Edy Sudradjat's strategic appointments in his brief glory days to safeguard "army institutional rationality," and more recently to ease out officers whom Wismoyo Arismunandar protected to assert his autonomy of the Armed Forces Headquarters under Feisal. As we noted in Indonesia 58 (October 1994), the institutional backbone of Benny Murdani's power in the army was broken with the liquidation of BAIS ABRI and its replacement by a less powerful military intelligence agency, BIA, in January 1994. Most of the officers Edy Sudradjat promoted to key positions in March and April 1993 are by now eased out or transferred to less important positions. Lt. Gen. Mantiri, Armed Forces' Chief of General Staff from May 1993 to February 1995, and Lt. Gen. Hariyoto, Armed Forces' Chief of Social and Political Staff from May 1993 to January 1994, are retired. Edi Sudradjat's Assistant for General Planning, Maj. Gen. I Made Sadha, is now his Director-General for Materiel, Facilities, and Services at the Department of Defense and Security. Maj. Gen. Haris Sudarno, Commander of Kodam 5 Brawijaya from March 1993 to March 1995, and Maj. Gen. Theo Syafei, Commander of Kodam 9 Udayana from March 1993 to February 1994, are sent to the DPR. Maj. Gen. Muzani Syukur, Commander of Kodam 3 Siliwangi from March 1993 to March 1995, is now Army Inspector-General, while Maj. Gen. A. Pranowo, Commander of Kodam 1 Bukit Barisan from April 1993 to April 1994, is Head, Armed Forces' Functional Group Upbuilding Boday (Babinkar). The departure of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Wismoyo Arismunandar in February 1995 offered more recent opportunities for palace offensive and Armed Forces' Commander Gen. Feisal Tanjung's consolidation of his constituency in the military. Wismoyo, once widely seen as Feisal's successor as Armed Forces' Commander, lost Presidential patronage not only because of his extra-marital affairs, but more importantly because he protected Benny Moerdani's men in the Army headquarters after they were kicked out of the Armed Forces headquarters, and because he Military Data 105 tried to protect army business interests against the encroachment of Presidential crony Mohammad (Bob) Hasan in order to show that he was not a puppet of Soeharto.
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