Wiranto

Wiranto (born April 4, 1947) is a retired Indonesia army General. He was Commander of the military of Indonesia from February 1998 to October 1999, and ran unsuccessfully for president of Indonesia in 2004. He is accused by the United Nations and domestic groups of having a role in human rights violations by the Indonesian army and Jakarta-backed militias during Indonesia's withdrawal from the occupied territory of East Timor in 1999 . Wiranto was born on 4th April 1947 in Yogyakarta to RS Wirowijoto, a Primary School teacher and Suwarsijah. He was the sixth out of nine children. Only one month old, Wiranto and his family moved from Yogyakarta to Surakarta for safety reasons as the Dutch were planning to launch an attack on Yogyakarta. At Surakarta, Wiranto completed his primary and secondary education. When he was a child, Wiranto had dreamt of a military career but as he grew up he developed the desire to become an architect. However, training to become an architect was not... full article at wikipedia