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  Indonesian Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the pretext of stopping a communist coup, Nasution and Suharto led their forces to liquidate the PKI and topple the regime of Sukarno.
At the insistence of Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, Maj. Gen.
General Nasution was believed to have launched his own bid for power on December 16, 1966, when he won appointment to the Supreme Operations Command, and gained a grip over the traditionally civilian-held portion of the military hierarchy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indonesia_Civil_War   (3652 words)

  
 Mandailing - English version - Columns - Independence veteran Nasution dies at 81
Mr Nasution was the architect of the Indonesian armed forces' controversial role in politics and domination of civilian society that lasted for more than 30 years until the fall of former president Soeharto in 1998.
Mr Nasution was one of the masterminds of the strategy used by the then fledgling Indonesian guerilla army in fighting the Dutch colonial army in the 1940s.
In the later years of Soeharto's rule, Mr Nasution became a critic of the regime that is now widely discredited as corrupt and repressive, joining the influential Petition 50 dissident group.
www.mandailing.org /mandailinge/columns/harisn.html   (266 words)

  
 Indonesia - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Nasution, a native of Sumatra, had served in KNIL before joining the republican army in 1946.
The efforts of the military leadership under Nasution, who was army chief of staff throughout most of the 1950s, to "reorganize and rationalize" the defense establishment quickly met with resistance, however.
By the end of the year, Nasution and several of the most influential members of the "professional" faction were forced to resign.
www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-6334.html   (2498 words)

  
 1981 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service - Johanna S. Nasution
She was schooled in Yogyakarta and Bandung and in 1947 married the future General Abdul Haris Nasution by whom she has had two children.
NASUTION pursued her work independent of her husband's military career, although on occasion their relationship has opened doors.
NASUTION and her associates today includes 23 national nongovernmental groups, 18 provincial coordinating councils of social welfare, 17 schools with social work faculties and 9 national government agencies.
www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Citation/CitationNasutionJoh.htm   (522 words)

  
 [Kabar-Irian] Irian News - 7/2/03 (Part 1 of 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He said that this was because the dual function had come to exceed his intentions for a civil role for the military, and because the military had become a law unto itself.
Nasution was not the only one to regret the military's political role.
Minister of Defense Matori Abdul Djalil and the Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen.
www.kabar-irian.com /pipermail/kabar-irian/2003-July/000260.html   (5288 words)

  
 Info Harian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Two senior ABRI members, Gen. (ret) Abdul Haris Nasution and Gen. (ret) Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani, expressed hope that under Wiranto the Armed Forces could be more heedful of and responsive to people's aspirations.
Nasution, who turns 80 this year, said Wiranto should strive to maintain unity in the Armed Forces and protect it from disintegration.
Nasution said it made sense that Wiranto had a more outstanding record than his seniors including himself.
www.tempointeractive.com /ang/har/1998/21feb-1.htm   (553 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Indonesia - Independence: The First Phases, 1950-65 | Indonesian Information Resource
Instead, he began encouraging war veterans to oppose their military superiors; and the army chief of staff, Sumatran Colonel Abdul Haris Nasution (born 1918), was obliged to resign in a Sukarno-induced shake-up of military commands.
Nasution, reappointed and working in cooperation with Sukarno, issued an order in 1955 transferring these officers out of their localities.
The Republic of Indonesia was falling apart, testimony in the eyes of Sukarno and Nasution that the parliamentary system was unworkable.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/indonesia/indonesia31.html   (1006 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nasution Abdul Haris
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nasution Abdul Haris
Nasution, Abdul Haris (1918-2000), Indonesian general and hero of the struggle for independence, who led the army's counter-offensive against...
Ungku, Abdul Aziz (1922- ), leading Malaysian economist and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Nasution_Abdul_Haris.html   (84 words)

  
 [INDONESIA-NEWS] AP - AH Nasution Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nasution was the only survivor of a round of assassinations of
Nasution graduated from a Dutch colonial military academy in
Nasution is survived by his wife and one daughter.
www.hamline.edu /apakabar/basisdata/2000/09/06/0003.html   (404 words)

  
 Macam-Macam: Remembering 30th September 1965: The fateful night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Abdul Haris Nasution (Chief of Staff of Armed Forces).
Nasution himself somehow managed to escape the clutches of his would-be kidnappers by jumping the compound wall and hiding in the garden of the Iraqi ambassador’s residence.
The man himself reported that from around 9pm he was with his wife, Ibu Tien, at the hospital bed of their 3-year old son Tommy, who was recuperating from burns inflicted by a soup spill some days earlier.
www.theswanker.com /macammacam/2004/09/remembering_30t_1.html   (600 words)

  
 Badd Painting Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nasution worked hard to solve this internal Army conflict that had stretched into politics and involved civilians.
Nasution himself was a (North) Sumateranese, but he was firmly backing up the centralist government based in Jakarta.
Lubis failed and Nasution won, but the Colonel had given heart to everyone opposing the central government of the time.
baddpainting.port5.com /loco/page02.htm   (10785 words)

  
 World Affairs Board - Doctrine: Total Peoples Defense
Attempts by the parliament of the new Republic to make the military subservient to political and civilian control led to a demonstration by a group of army officers led by Dutch-trained A.H.Nasution outside the presidential palace on October 17,1952, in protest against civilian meddling in the internal affairs of the military.
Nasution, the original author of the "dwifungsi" concept in 1957, was one of the first to express the view that the time had come to review it.
In the early 1990s, a group of 50 retired military officers and former politicians, which came to be known as the Petisi 50 Group, became increasingly vocal in its criticism of the political style of functioning of Mr.Suharto.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=4402   (12151 words)

  
 [Kabar-indonesia] Indo News - 4/13/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Megawati witnessed during her childhood the difficulty faced by her father, founding President Sukarno, when he was forced to depend on General Abdul Haris Nasution to put down rebellions in Sumatera and Sulawesi in the late 1950s.
The success of Nasution and the army in undermining the position of the rebellious colonels in the outer islands brought with the high price of a stronger bargaining position for the generals in Jakarta.
Under strong pressure from Nasution, Sukarno issued the presidential decree known as the decree of July 5, 1959.
www.kabar-irian.com /pipermail/kabar-indonesia/2003-April/000317.html   (6055 words)

  
 Haris - Xanthoudakis Haris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Abdul Haris Nasution (born Kotanopan 3 December 1918 - died Jakarta 5 September 2000) is an Indonesian general who escaped an
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nasution Abdul Haris
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 Who’s Driving Islamic Militant Groups?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The chief suspect behind the assassination attempt was Colonel Zulkifli Lubis, a former Army intelligence chief and deputy chief of staff who had been among the contenders for the position of chief of staff in 1955, when General Abdul Haris Nasution was appointed to the post.
Lubis was strongly connected to Islamic militant groups, and he established an underground organization led by men from the strongly Islamic Dompo area of the eastern Indonesia island of Sumbawa.
This argument is presented by, among others, Hari Tjan Silalahi, a prominent actor in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also a creation of Murtopo.
www.westpapua.net /news/02/05/240502-milisi.htm   (974 words)

  
 Mandailing :: English :: Independence veteran Nasution dies at 81
Mandailing :: English :: Independence veteran Nasution dies at 81
As Indonesia struggled to emerge as a nation, he served as army chief, supreme military commander and national security minister.
A portrait of his daughter was a feature in his house in Jakarta, where visitors could still see bullet holes in the wall.
www.mandailing.org /Eng/nasdiesat81.html   (275 words)

  
 RainForestWind -- Nin -- Hypocrisy of the Mooi Indie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I have mentioned General Abdul Haris Nasution, former Chief of Staff under Sukarno and former superior officer of Suharto, later was taken as his dangerous rival and denied any public role when Suharto had established his regime.
While, ironic as everything tends to be in authoritarian states, Nasution was the man who thought up the role of the military in civilian politics.
It was under General Nasution that the Army got solidly on, that to be in or out of their favor for the civilian politicians was a matter of life or death.
www.geocities.com /rainforestwind/life4.htm   (6416 words)

  
 ASAP Indonesia News Digest
Minister Hari said on Saturday that the government needed one year to complete the technical preparations for the establishment of the new provinces, implying that the division had not yet taken place.
Minister of Home Affairs Hari Sabarno said earlier that the limitation was designed to ensure that presidential candidates were nominated by big parties with enough support as reflected by the number of seats they held in the House.
Herwin Nasution, executive director of the Medan Environment Forum (Walhi), lambasted police for the recent arrests, saying the three were not involved in the blockade.
www.asia-pacific-action.org /southeastasia/indonesia/netnews/2003/ind_15v7.htm   (19908 words)

  
 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Abdul Rahman Tunku   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Abdul Rahman, Tunku (1903-1990), first prime minister of the Federation of Malaya (1957-1963) and of Malaysia (1963-1970).
On August 31, 1957, the Federation of Malaya was established with Tunku Abdul Rahman of the UMNO, the dominant member of the Alliance, as the first...
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 Surat dari Redaksi
If other books about Nasution are written from Nasution points of view, the PDAT book is a somewhat different.
In the book, Nasution also quoted what Great Commander General Sudirman said, "For the sake of honesty, truth, and fairness".
We are also grateful that Nasution wanted to answer all questions, no matter how critical they were.
www.tempo.co.id /ang/min/02/52/sdr-e.htm   (518 words)

  
 HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
JAKARTA - Menyambut peringatan Hari Pahlawan 10 November ini, pemerintah kembali menganugerahkan gelar pahlawan nasional dan tanda kehormatan RI kepada sejumlah putra bangsa yang dianggap berjasa besar kepada negara.
Di antara yang memperoleh anugerah itu, mantan Ketua MPRS Jenderal Besar Abdul Haris Nasution (alm) dan mertua Presiden Megawati Soekarnoputri, yakni Tji Agus Kiemas (alm).
Mereka adalah AH Nasution, mantan Wakil Ketua DPA GPH Djati Kusumo, Andi Jemma, Pong Toku alias Ne'baso, dan Prof Mr Iwa Kusuma Sumantri, seluruhnya almarhum.
www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0211/09/nas4.htm   (277 words)

  
 List of guerrillas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_guerrillas.htm   (2286 words)

  
 Asiaweek.com
So serious are the divisions at the top, however, that some in the old guard have broken rank and publicly criticized the current military leadership.
Among them are senior retired military leader Abdul Haris Nasution, one of the founders of the modern armed forces, and former Home Minister Rudini.
When Rudini oh-so-gently reminded the military that it owed its allegiance to the people, not the president, Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security Susilo Sudarman had to remind the retired officer of the need for unity, at least in public.
www.timeinc.net /asiaweek/96/0913/nat5.html   (1194 words)

  
 A | Ensiklopedi Tokoh Indonesia - Indonesian Famous - Tokoh Nasional
Pakar ilmu komunikasi dan pejuang kebebasan pers Prof Dr Andi Abdul Muis wafat dalam usia 75 tahun, Sabtu 6 Agustus 2005 pukul 22.15 Wita.
Dia berjanji memprioritaskan perkara-perkara korupsi besar pada 100 hari pertama.
Presiden Megawati Soekarnoputri di hari terakhir masa jabatannya akhirnya menandatangani Keppres Nomor 185 M Tahun 2004 tertanggal 19 Oktober 2004 mengangkat tujuh pimpinan BPK.
tokohindonesia.com /ensiklopedi/a/index.shtml   (955 words)

  
 Indonesia: Second Greatest Crime of Century: 1958: The First CIA Attempt
At best, the Army, headed by General Abdul Haris Nasution, an anti-Communist, might come over to the rebels and force wholesale changes to the liking of the United States.
Since the takeover led by Generals Nasution and Suharto, Indonesia has moved into the American orbit.
Final proof of this was the visit of the new Indonesian Foreign Minister, Adam Malik, to then President Johnson in September of 1966.
www.workers.org /indonesia/chap2.html   (2379 words)

  
 Articles - Suharto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
At the urging of the Defense Minister and the military's Chief-of-Staff Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, Maj. Gen.
On October 18, a declaration was read over the army-controlled radio stations, banning the Communist Party of Indonesia.
In the following months, as alleged Communists and Sukarno loyalists were killed and captured from the cities and villages, and liquidated from government, the trioka of Pres.
www.lastring.com /articles/Suharto   (3441 words)

  
 TAPOL, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign
On the following day, 1 October, several senior and middle-ranking officers were murdered by a group calling itself the G30S.
Two senior officers escaped being murdered, Lt General Abdul Haris Nasution and Suharto.
While the motive for the murders was still unclear, President Sukarno issued an order to Suharto to instruct all troops to remain in their places while awaiting instructions from the President.
tapol.gn.apc.org /news/files/st050420.htm   (1626 words)

  
 Penders and Sundhaussen (1985) Abdul Haris Nasution: A political biography
Penders and Sundhaussen (1985) Abdul Haris Nasution: A political biography
Indonesia; Politics and government; Armed Forces; Biography; 20th century; Generals; Nasution, Abdul Haris
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www.getcited.org /?PUB=102377833&showStat=Ratings   (97 words)

  
 IN/POL: KMP - Nasution: Social Inju
(ret.) Abdul Haris Nasution stated that the Indonesian people's
According to Nasution, when the program to restore security was
Hatta (former Indonesia's Vice President), Nasution stated that
www.hamline.edu /apakabar/basisdata/1996/09/28/0050.html   (364 words)

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