Intelligence academies
Intelligence academies
The government has announced it will shortly set up two
intelligence academies, one in Bogor, West Java, and the other in
Batam, Riau, apparently to meet an urgent demand for more
effective intelligence gathering. Failure to get timely
information of troop movements or the weaponry of the enemy could
lead to disastrous consequences, as we have witnessed during the
U.S.-Iraqi campaign.
Some have blamed the recent bomb blast at the Indonesian
legislature on the failure of the secret service to detect any
suspicious movements by the perpetrators, who could have slipped
between metal detectors and planted their bomb unnoticed.
From the Aceh campaign at restoring the authority of the
Unitary Republic of Indonesia, both parties are engaged in
information gathering activities involving the intelligence
services. The Army has for some time been at a loss to locate the
kidnapped Indonesian journalist from RCTI television station, a
fact that somehow has hampered the security operations.
Intelligence missions are superhumanly difficult as they must
be kept secret all the time until the missions are completed.
Those chosen to enter the intelligence academies must be citizens
endowed with superhuman qualities, who possess special talents
and courage more than ordinary people and are gifted with
intuition in times of crisis.
It may be safe to say that intelligence agents must be born
rather than made at a training center. Apart from the pure
military training, those selected to enter these "spy schools"
must have the capacity to master many international languages
such as English, French, Spanish, Arabic and some local dialects.
The bankruptcy shadow which has fallen over the ambitious PT
Dirgantara Indonesia aircraft manufacturing plant in Bandung, can
be attributed to the failure of long-term business intelligence
gathering by those responsible for projects.
The soon to be opened intelligence gathering institutions will
be coordinated by the present State Intelligence Body chief, Army
Gen. Hendroprijono.
I am sure that he will have a lot of secret intelligence
weapons to teach the new generation of Indonesian spies. I wish
Hendroprijono and the new generation of intelligence agents all
the success!
GANDHI SUKARDI, Jakarta