Armed Forces & Military Operations

September 2017

News/Indonesia
Merdeka – September 22, 2017

Muhammad Genantan Saputra – Indonesian military (TNI) chief General Gatot Nurmantyo has ordered all TNI members to watch the film Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Betrayal of the September 30 Movement/Indonesian Communist Party).

News/Indonesia
Tempo – September 15, 2017

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – The Indonesian Army (TNI AD) has ordered all of its officers to hold joint screenings of the film The Treachery of the September 30 Movement/Indonesian Communist Party (Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI).

August 2017

News/Indonesia
Jakarta Greater – August 4, 2017

Depok – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu has warned young people about the very real danger of drugs and the threat against the state ideology of Pancasila that could threaten the integrity and survival of the nation.

June 2017

News/Indonesia
Detik News – June 13, 2017

Syahdan Alamsyah, Sukabumi – Indonesian military (TNI) chief General Gatot Nurmantyo says that the simultaneous 171717 events that are to be held nationwide on August 17 at 5pm, which are being initiated by the TNI, will be a love and affection (kasih saying) action that will involve all religious elements, particularly Muslims as the majority r

January 2017

News/Indonesia
Jawa Post (JPPN) – January 7, 2017

The Islamic Defenders Front’s (FPI) Banten Regional Representatives Council (DPD) held State Defence Preliminary Training (PPBN) in the Lebak regency of Banten, West Java, on Thursday January 5.

October 2016

News/Indonesia
Solidarity Net – October 22, 2016

Poso – The Central Sulawesi Indonesian People’s Center for Struggle (PPRI) held a free speech forum at the Clock traffic circle in Poso city on Wednesday October 19.

News/Indonesia
Kabar Buruh – October 14, 2016

Cianjur – Scores of workers employed at the beverage company PT Tirta Sukses Perkasa in Cianjur, West Java, are calling for an end to the involvement of the TNI (Indonesian military) in an industrial dispute they are currently embroiled in.

May 2016

News/West Papua
Suara Papua – May 17, 2016

Arnold Belau¸ Jayapura – As many as 101 Mobile Brigade (Brimob, paramilitary police) personnel from the East Java regional police (Polda) were sent to West Papua on Monday May 16. The blue-beret troops were deployed with the primary duty of protecting the Freeport gold mine from all types of disturbances.

News/Indonesia
Rappler – May 13, 2016

Jakarta, Indonesia – The government sponsored national symposium on 1965 was held in April although reverberations over the forum, which for the first time brought together victims and perpetrators of the bloody 1965 tragedy, are still being felt to this day.

February 2016

News/Indonesia
Okezone.com – February 23, 2016

Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu believes that the emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Indonesia is part of a “proxy war” to take over a country without needing to send military troops.