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5 unusual facts about Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani


Cornell Paper

In October 1975, ten years after the incident and after Suharto had become President, the Indonesian government sent a delegation of "military men and government intellectuals", led by intelligence officers Ali Murtopo and Benny Moerdani, to present a complete briefing of the coup and the events leading up to it.

Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani

There, Moerdani took part in an Infantry Officers Advanced Course and trained with the 101st Airborne Division.

In March 1958, Moerdani parachuted down behind enemy lines in Pekanbaru and Medan to prepare the groundwork for ABRI to take over the two cities.

By this time, Moerdani had also made an enemy out of Prabowo Subianto, Suharto's son in law.

In 1964, Moerdani and an RPKAD Battalion was sent to Borneo to fight a guerilla war against Malaysian and British troops as part of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.



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