Saurip upset over disciplinary charges<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Maj. Gen. Saurip Kadi, former territorial
\nassistant to the Army chief, denied on Wednesday he would be
\nhanded disciplinary charges that could show him the door.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the transfer
\nof duty of the Army chief, Saurip said he was ready to stand
\nbefore an Officers Honor Council (DKP) for publishing a book
\ntitled TNI: Di masa Lalu and Masa Depan (TNI, in the past and
\nfuture) in August without his superiors' consent.<\/p>\n
\"Frankly speaking, nobody can ban anybody else from publishing
\nbooks and, as a senior officer, I presented a written report to
\nthe Army chief a month before the book was published,\" Saurip
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
A number of senior military officers have suggested that
\nSaurip and his colleague and former Army Strategic Reserves
\nCommand (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen. Agus Wirahadikusumah be taken
\nbefore the DKP, which in 1998 honorably discharged former Kostrad
\nchief Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto.<\/p>\n
Agus is accused of several indisciplinary actions, including
\nordering the dispatch of a group of Kostrad soldiers to
\nearthquake-ravaged Bengkulu without permission from the Army
\nleadership and leaking to the press alleged corruption within
\nKostrad.<\/p>\n
The two cases surfaced following rumors that Agus would be
\nappointed the new Army chief to replace Gen. Tyasno Sudarto.<\/p>\n
However, President Abdurrahman Wahid installed Gen.
\nEndriartono Sutarto as the Army chief instead.<\/p>\n
After Wednesday's ceremony, Endriartono hinted that the two
\nsenior officers would not have to face the honor council because
\nof a lack of evidence of their trespasses.<\/p>\n
\"What is a honor council for if it has to probe into two
\nofficers who committed only minor violations? They'd better be
\nreprimanded,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The newly installed Army chief asked the media not to
\nexaggerate the issue.<\/p>\n
Saurip has been assigned to the Army's Kartika Eka Paksi
\nfoundation, while Agus has been given no assignment or office at
\nthe Army Headquarters.<\/p>\n
Agus, who also attended Wednesday's ceremony, declined to
\ncomment, saying it was not his place to do so.<\/p>\n
\"Please, ask him. Don't ask an unassigned officer,\" he said
\nwhile pointing to Endriartono at a reception after the ceremony.
\n(rms)<\/p>",
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