Soeharto visits Nasution in hospital

Soeharto visits Nasution in hospital

Antara

JAKARTA (JP): President Soeharto visited Gen. (ret) Abdul
Haris Nasution at Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital yesterday.

The President was accompanied by Minister/State Secretary
Moerdiono and his daughter Titiek Prabowo. Nasution lay in bed
(right) with his wife, Johana Sunarti, standing at his bedside
during the President's visit.

Nasution, an army chief under first president Sukarno and now
a government critic, has been treated for a prostate problem
since Monday, according to Antara.

This is the second time this year Nasution has been
hospitalized. Last month, he spent several days in the same
hospital suffering from the same problem.

Last February, Nasution suffered an inflammation of the
prostate, and rheumatism, which forced him to use a walking
stick.

A hospital public relations officer declined to comment when
The Jakarta Post asked about Nasution's condition and why he was
being treated.

The presidential medical team is caring for the 78-year-old
Nasution.

He is known as one of the founders of the modern Indonesian
Army. He has also been dubbed a military intellectual, and has
written a number of books, including the two-volume Guerrilla
Guidelines, and Indonesia's Independence Struggle.

He was speaker of the Provisional People's Consultative
Assembly from 1968 to 1972.

During the visit President Soeharto wished Nasution well and
encouraged him to recover quickly. (12)