Indonesian Communist Party (PKI)

Dipa Nusantara Aidit

Born in Pangkal Lalang, Belitung Island, South Sumatra on July 30, 1923

Education:

Hollandsch-Inlandsche School (HIS elementary school) and Middestand Handel School (MHS junior high school).

Career

1939 : Joins an organization for minorities PERTIMU
1944 : Joins Barisan Pelopor Indonesia, an underground movement against Japanese occupation, which is led
           by Sukarno who later becomes the first president of the country.
1945 : Head of Jakarta chapter of Indonesian Youth Troops
1946 : Joins PKI
1951 : Head of PKI'€™s central committee.

Sjam Kamaruzaman

Born in Tuban, East Java, Apr. 30, 1924

Education: Business school in Yogyakarta.

Career:

1947 : Forms a car trade union
1950 : Deputy head of the Central Bureau of the All-Indonesian Labor Union (SOBSI), a labor wing of PKI
1960 : Joins PKI
1964 : Head of PKI'€™s special bureau.

Indonesian Military

Sarwo Edhie Wibowo

Born in Purworedjo, Central Java, July 25, 1925 '€“ Nov. 9, 1989

Education

General Staff College, Australia

Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, the US

Military school in Magelang, Central Java

Career

1945-1951 : Battalion commander in the Diponegoro Military Command overseeing Central Java
1959-1961 : Deputy regiment commander in the national military academy.
1962-1964 : Chief of staff of the Army'€™s Special Forces (RPKAD)
1965-1967 : Commander of RPKAD
1967-1968 : Commander of West Sumatra military command
1968-1970 : Commander of Papua military command
1970-1973 : Governor of the Indonesian Armed Forces Academy
1974          :  Indonesian ambassador to South Korea
1978-1983 : Inspector general at the Foreign Ministry
1984-1990 : Head of the Board for Developing Education and the Implementation of Guidelines for Installing
                    and Applying Pancasila, known as BP7

Soeharto

Born in Kemusuk, Godean, Yogyakarta,
Jun. 8, 1921 '€“ Jan. 27, 2008

Education:

KNIL, Cadet school in Gombong, Central Java

Career:

1943-1944 : Platoon commander of the Japanese-trained Defenders of the Motherland (PETA) in Yogyakarta
1945          : Forms People'€™s Security Agency.
1956          : Chief of staff of Diponegoro division
1960          : First deputy of the Army chief of staff
1960          : Head of an ad hoc committee in the Indonesian Army.
1961          : Indonesian Military attaché to Europe
1962          : Commander of Irian liberation operation
1963-1965 : Commander of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad)
1965          : Acting commander of the Indonesian Military
1966          : Indonesian Military commander
1966-1998 : Indonesian president

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