Who dares?<\/p>\n
Rakyat Merdeka on June 11, 2001 published an interview with
\nMr. Kemal Idris, former chief of the Army Strategic Reserves
\nCommand (green berets) who sieged the palace of former president
\nSukarno on Oct. 17, 1952. Contrary to what I have often read, Mr.
\nKemal Idris said the besiege was not a plot to carry out a coup
\nd'etat, but rather to protect the palace from demonstrators
\nmilling about the palace. The cannon muzzles of armored vehicles
\nwere not directed at the palace but instead on the mob.<\/p>\n
Mr. Idris further said the siege was meant to force Bung
\nKarno to dissolve the legislature. His account was a bit
\ndifferent from what Brian May wrote in his book The Indonesian
\nTragedy that the siege was a putsch and the mass rally was in
\nfact triggered by the military. However, both men have said that
\nthe siege to the palace of Sukarno was to force him to dissolve
\nthe legislature and hold a expedited election.<\/p>\n
On the same page the daily ran a story entitled: Who dares to
\nlay siege to Gus Dur's palace?. If the challenge to siege
\nPresident Abdurrahman \"Gus Dur\" Wahid's palace is related to the
\nOct. 17, 1952 incident, it should read: Who dares to lay siege to
\nGus Dur's palace to force him to dissolve the legislature and
\nhold a general election three years thereafter?. (In Sukarno's
\ncase, the general election was held in 1955). Is this what it
\nmeans?<\/p>\n
SUNARTO PRAWIROSUJANTO<\/p>\n
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