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Thursday, March 27, 2008

ELITE

By Ken Conboy

For more than half a century, the elite units of the Indonesian Armed Forces have been in the forefront of that country’s brushfire wars, counter-guerrilla campaigns, counter-terrorist battles, and police actions. They have also dominated Indonesian politics for most of the decades since independence…..

The Romance of K’tut Tantri
By Timothy Lindsey

This historiographic study of K’tut Tantri – alias Vannen Walker, the journalist from the Isle of Man; Muriel Pearson, the unhappy wife; and Surabaya Sue, the notorious revolutionary – compares her romantic and colorful autobiography, Revolt in Paradise, with other versions of her past, including those of her fellow Bali colonists and her revolutionary comrades, as well as her foes, the Dutch, and various intelligence organizations. These alternative accounts of her past question the image of K’tut Tantri as hero, portraying her instead as dishonest, unstable, egotistical, and immoral
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