Murdani, Gen. Leonardus b. 1930 d. August 29, 2004 Indonesian, general, war hero and former minister of defense and security. He was a military hero who led the invasions of West Papua in 1962 and East Timor in 1975. Murdani was from the Central Javanese town of Solo; entered military service after Indonesia's 1945-49 war of independence against the Dutch; joined the army's elite parachute battalion and was closely associated with the red-bereted commandos, Kopassus, who were blamed for numerous human rights atrocities throughout Indonesia...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser) Taman Makam Pahlawan Kalibata, Jakarta (Djakarta), Jakarta Special Capital Region, Indonesia
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta b. February 6, 1925 d. April 30, 2006 Author. He was born in Blora, Central Java. He was a candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature. Also, he was an outspoken champion of democracy, who spent several years in prison under successive regimes. His 34 books and essays have been translated into 37 languages. His best-known works - the Buru Quartet novels about Indonesia's independence struggle against the Dutch - were written on scraps of paper and surreptitiously smuggled out while he was imprisoned on the remote island of Buru. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni) Karet Bivak Cemetery, Jakarta (Djakarta), Jakarta Special Capital Region, Indonesia
b. 1930 d. August 29, 2004