Prabowo Subianto
Prabowo Subianto Djojohadikusumo ( born October 17, 1951 in Jakarta ) is a retired general of the Indonesian army, TNI and son of longtime President Suharto. Until his release in May 1998 after Suharto's resignation, he was one of the most powerful warlord in Indonesia.
Life
The father Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a professor of economics, had to flee in 1957 after a failed uprising in the country, which was, despite the support of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency failed. Prabowo spent his childhood in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, in Switzerland and in the UK until 1968, the family returned to Indonesia.
Prabowo Subianto graduated in 1974 from the military school and went to the elite unit Tim Nanggala X to East Timor, which was one of the Kopassandha forces ( Kopassus later ) two years later. He received in 1980 in Fort Bragg ( USA) and about 1981 in West Germany with members of the GSG9 The first special training.
The daughter of Suharto, Siti Hediati Harijadi, with the nickname " Titiek " Prabowo Subianto married in 1983, and thus Prabowo Subianto was firmly integrated into the power grid of the rulers. In the same year he took over the leadership of a Kopassus unit in East Timor. He founded the Tim Alfa militia in Lospalos and participated in August 1983 in a massacre in Kraras, a reprisal of villagers after a raid of Falintil, where 16 Indonesian soldiers died. In retaliation, almost 300 people died. In addition, there was torture and rape. The inhabitants of the neighboring villages were forcibly relocated.
After another training trip to Fort Benning in 1985 in the U.S. state of Georgia to Prabowo stopped again reinforced on in East Timor. In the late 1980s he commanded the battalion 328 of the strategic military commands Kostrad, Kopassus next to one of the two power centers of the Indonesian army and in 1989 founded the paramilitary militia Gada Paksi. Only days before the Santa Cruz massacre (over 500 people died or disappeared without a trace ) in November 1991, Prabowo was seen in the East Timorese capital Dili to visit Sjafrie Syamsuddin, with whom he attended the military school Akabri. Both the military are considered possible backers of the massacre.
Eight years later, Prabowo Subianto switched back to Kopassus and commanded from 1993, the Group III in Batujajar in Bandung, which is responsible for training tasks. In the following two years he was deputy to the task force and from December 1995, after the restructuring of Kopassus, as a Brigadier - General whose commander until he moved in March 1998 to the top of Kostrad brigades and thus one of the most important positions of the TNI held.
After the riots of May 1998 in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, which eventually led to the departure of President Suharto, the Minister of Defense General Prabowo Wiranto released on May 25 of the year. Members of Kopassus troops who were loyal Prabowo, played a decisive role in the riots in Jakarta. They kidnapped and murdered supporters of the democracy movement. Prabowo Subianto left the meantime the country and went to his brother to Jordan.
In 2008 he founded the party Gerindra ( Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya - " Party of Great Indonesia Movement "), which is about 4.3 percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections on April 9, 2009. End of the month was chosen as the vice presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto Megawati Sukarnoputris party PDI -P.
End of 2011, Prabowo announced to compete in the presidential election of 2014.