Bagi yang dulunya mendukung Megawati saya kutipkan kalimat
dibawah ini:
"Reports in Jakarta say his move sent tremors through the
officer corps, and enraged General Wiranto, still influential
and close to General Suparman. A group of conservative generals
met at General Wiranto's house last Wednesday, according to
Tempo magazine, and then approached Ms Megawati, who joined then
in pressing Mr Wahid for the transfer of General Agus".
Pendukung Megawati - apapun alasannya - ikut bertanggung jawab
secara moral terhadap apa yang terjadi sekarang, karena anda tahu
bahwa Megawati itu goblok, dungu dan TIDAK anti dwi-fungsi.
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Subject: [reformasitotal] SMH analysis: Sacking of Military Reformer
Threatens New Chill
> also: [Suara Pembaruan] KOSTRAD chief sacking a setback for Gus Dur's
> reforming efforts
>
> Sydney Morning Herald
> August 1, 2000
>
> Military reformer loses post in backlash
>
> By HAMISH McDONALD, Herald Foreign Editor in Jakarta
>
> The sudden transfer of a leading reformist general out of the Indonesian
> Army's most important combat command threatens a new chill in Jakarta's
> relations with Western governments, and puts off any immediate prospect of a
> resumption in military aid.
>
> Worried foreign officials in Jakarta see the general's removal as part of a
> backlash by military conservatives wedded to the central political role
> awarded the armed forces (TNI) under former president Soeharto.
>
> They are even more worried by the fact that this crackdown on openness and
> reform was done with the support of Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri,
> whose nationalist PDI Perjuangan party is the biggest element in the
> coalition backing President Abdurrahman Wahid.
>
> The reformer, Lieutenant-General Agus Wirahadikusumah, will be replaced
> tomorrow as head of the army's Strategic Reserve (Kostrad) and assigned
> without specific job responsibility to the army headquarters, effectively
> ousting him from influence on armed forces policy.
>
> The new Kostrad commander will be Major-General Ryamizard Ryacudu, leader of
> the Jakarta garrison. General Ryamizard is regarded as a conventional soldier
> with connections to the Soeharto-era leadership through his father-in-law, a
> former armed forces commander and vice-president, Mr Try Sutrisno.
>
> General Agus has been an outspoken advocate of the military's withdrawal from
> its "Dwi-fungsi" (Dual Function) role in politics, which saw it create
> "territorial" command down to village level under Soeharto, a tight hold that
> involved enormous repression and corruption.
>
> He was openly derisive of the former armed forces commander and defence
> minister, General Wiranto, when General Wiranto refused to resign after being
> named in February by a government inquiry as partly responsible for last
> year's violence in East Timor. His pressure helped Mr Wahid gain General
> Wiranto's agreement to step down, and General Agus was soon after appointed
> to the Kostrad command.
>
> General Agus's latest sin was to expose the withdrawal of 190 billion rupiah
> ($38 million) from two of Kostrad's business ventures by his predecessor,
> Lieutenant-General Djaja Suparman.
>
> When General Suparman was unable to account for the funds drawn in large
> tranches over December and January from Mandala Airlines and the Dharma Putra
> Foundation - enterprises supposed to top up the pitiful official salaries of
> officers and men - and returned some in a cheque from his personal account,
> General Agus went public, called in defence auditors, and suspended two of
> Kostrad's financial officers.
>
> Reports in Jakarta say his move sent tremors through the officer corps, and
> enraged General Wiranto, still influential and close to General Suparman. A
> group of conservative generals met at General Wiranto's house last Wednesday,
> according to Tempo magazine, and then approached Ms Megawati, who joined then
> in pressing Mr Wahid for the transfer of General Agus.
>
> Military sources said the argument used to win over Mr Wahid was that taking
> pressure off the demoralised TNI on this key financial front would lead to
> more zeal in stopping inter-religious violence in the Moluccan islands.
>
> Analysts said the move against General Agus would be taken very badly by the
> United States, and would effectively squelch debate about resuming training,
> equipment transfers and other support for the TNI, all of which was
> predicated on continuing reform.
>
> "The Americans placed great store and hope in his progress, to increase the
> rate of TNI reform," one defence analyst said. "Generally he is seen as the
> vanguard of the reform movement."
>
> ---------------------
>
> Suara Pembaruan, 31 July 2000
> Received from Tapol
> -Brief summary of article which appeared in bahasa Indonesia-
>
> KOSTRAD chief sacking a setback for Gus Dur's reforming efforts
>
> The decision announced today to sack Lt General Agu Wirahadikusumah as
> commander of KOSTRAD after being in the post for only four months, is a
> sign that Gus Dur's reforming efforts are very weak. Agus WK will be
> replaced by Major-General Ryamizard Ryacudu, currently commander of the
> Jakarta military command. The sacked general will be given no other posting.
>
> Agus WK was appointed to head KOSTRAD at the end of March when his
> appointment was seen as a move to strengthen the position of reforming
> generals loyal to Gus Dur.
>
> Political commentator Arbi Sanit said that the removal of Agus WK came as a
> result of his moves to expose a corruption scandal in the command's
> Foundation, Yayasan KOSTRAD. His removal is an indication that Gus Dur's
> ability to carry out reforms is very weak and under the influence of status
> quo elements, said Arbi.
>
> 'Whatever his weaknesses,' said Arbi Sanit, 'Agus WK is seen as a symbol of
> military reform. He is a man who should be supported, not removed.'
>
> The question is, why has an officer pushing for reform been removed. If we
> support civilian reform, the status quo forces should be cleaned up, said
> Arbi. Only recently, Agus WK suspended two colonels after discovering
> evidence of corruption in the KOSTRAD foundation, particularly with regard
> to the corrupt use of funds of Yayasan Darma Putra. The books of the
> yayasan are currently being audited.
>
> [Other sources suggest that the former KOSTRAD commander, Lt General Djadja
> Suparman, who was removed from the post after making remarks strongly
> critical of Gus Dur's leadership,and his replacement by Agus WK, is the top
> general suspected by Gus Dur of giving financial support to the training
> and dispatch of Laskar Jihad forces to Maluku. Some sources say that
> although Agus WK has held the post of KOSTRAD commander for four months,
> the grip of his predecessor on KOSTRAD persisted.]
>
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