Biografi jenderal lb moerdani

Ia adalah anak dari R. Moerdani Sosrodirjo, seorang pekerja kereta api. Adapun ibunya adalah Jeanne Roech yang memiliki darah setengah Jerman. Ketika kondisi Indonesia cukup aman, Moerdani menyelesaikan pendidikannya hingga sekolah menengah atas. Copyright - PT. All Rights Reserved. Otomatis Mode Gelap Mode Terang. Langganan Kompas. Ekonomi dan UMKM.

Biografi jenderal lb moerdani

Dia figur berkepribadian kuat, memiliki profesionalitas militer yang sangat kental, sedikit bicara, tegas, dan tidak bertele-tele jika berbicara. Menurut Sudrajat, selain punya karisma luar biasa, Beliau bisa membawa bangsa ini kepada suasana stabil, saling memahami, dan di tengah-tengah itu memformulasikan nilai-nilai demokrasi. Sebab, ia selalu berjuang dan melaksanakan tugasnya untuk negeri ini melampaui apa yang diwajibkan.

Abdurrahman Wahid Gus Dur menilai mendiang sebagai seorang prajurit yang berdedikasi tinggi dan tidak pernah memikirkan hal lain, selain negara dan kesatuannya. Namun, Gus Dur juga menulis, ternyata seorang LB Moerdani yang sedemikian perkasa masih mau diperintah untuk menjalankan kebijakan "petrus" penembakan misterius. Kebijakan tersebut dijadikan semacam terapi kejut oleh pemerintahan Soeharto untuk mengurangi angka kejahatan.

Sosok Benny juga terbilang kontroversial. Selain banyak yang mengenangnya sebagai prajurit sejati, gagah dan prajurit negarawan, juga ada pihak yang mengenangnya dalam sosok lain. Dia memang seorang jenderal yang meninggalkan banyak jejak semasa Orde Baru masih gagah perkasa. Wajah sangarnya sering hadir di banyak peristiwa yang menonjol. Bahkan setelah Orde Baru tumbang, bayang-bayangnya masih banyak dalam pembicaraan politik.

In August , Moerdani began sending Indonesian soldiers under the guise of volunteers to begin infiltrating East Timor. The intelligence operation ceased and a military operation, Operation Seroja Operation Lotus was set up in its stead. Despite it not being an intelligence operation, Moerdani continued to be involved, this time as the planner of the invasion.

His method in planning the invasion drew the ire of colleagues because it kept some high command officers, such as Deputy ABRI Commander Surono and Kostrad Commander Leo Lopulisa in the dark when they should have been involved in the planning process. Moerdani immediately left the meeting to go to Jakarta to prepare to take action, in the meantime the hijacked aircraft had landed at Bangkok 's Don Muang Airport.

Moerdani met with Suharto and secured the President's permission to use force in a bid to release the hostages; the rationale being that the hijackers should not be allowed to intimidate the aircraft pilots into flying to other countries. Although his plan encountered some resistance, particularly from the Thai Government, there was finally an agreement to take the military action.

On the morning of 31 March , Moerdani personally led the Kopassandha troops to storm the aircraft, take back control of it, and save the hostages. During the inauguration ceremony, Suharto gave recognition to Moerdani's loyalty by personally placing Moerdani's epaulettes on his shoulder. Moerdani reached this position with the distinction of having never commanded a unit bigger than a battalion and having not served as a Regional Military Commander Kodam and Army Chief of Staff.

Moerdani immediately took steps to reorganize the Armed Forces, listing cutting costs, improving efficiency, and improving professionalism as his immediate goals. With regards to command structure, Moerdani first eliminated the Regional Defense Commands Kowilhans , a command structure that had been created in , as well as the joint service National Strategic Command "Kostranas".

He then revamped the regional commands system for the Army, Navy, and Air Force. The Army's Military Regional Commands Kodam were reduced from 16 to 10, the Navy's 8 Regional Naval Commands Kodaeral were streamlined into 2 Fleet Headquarters, and the Air Force's 8 Regional Air Force Commands Kodau were similarly streamlined into 2 Air Operational Commands, with all commanding officers demoted to being liaison officers for the military regions, which became the primary area organisation for strategic, tactical, and territorial operations for all service branches.

Moerdani also worked towards decreasing the non-military portion of the Armed Forces Academies' Akabri curriculum. To improve the quality of the academy's input as well as to strengthen the nationalist base, Moerdani conceptualized a senior high pre-Academy school to train the nation's brightest talents to later become members of the national elite group the school, Taruna Nusantara , is now running and located side by side with the Military Academy in Magelang.

Moerdani claimed the protesters had been provoked and could not be controlled peacefully, so he ordered the crackdown. By , Moerdani's relationship with Suharto had soured. Although he was loyal to Suharto, Moerdani was assertive enough to criticize the President for the corruption and nepotism in the regime. By this time, Moerdani had also made an enemy out of Prabowo Subianto , Suharto's son in law.

According to Kivlan Zen , a close associate of Prabowo, this ran contrary to Moerdani, who wanted to become vice president himself. Robert Elson theorized of the possibility of Sudharmono's vice presidency being the final step before the Indonesian Presidency itself. Moerdani did not seem to give up. On the matter of the vice presidential candidate the Bureaucrats and Functional factions unanimously agreed to nominate Sudharmono.

The ABRI faction's nomination was delayed, with Moerdani continuing to procrastinate by claiming that he had not discussed the vice presidential nomination with Suharto yet. When pressured, Moerdani expressed his concern about Sudharmono's nomination although he did not give a specific reason. At one stage, he began giving subliminal signals that Try should be nominated as vice president.

Try did not pick up on this and along with the other officers convinced a reluctant Moerdani that the ABRI Faction's vice presidential candidate would be Sudharmono. Many believed that Moerdani was responsible for the controversy that continued to dog Sudharmono's nomination. Nevertheless, Suharto's will came through in the end and Sudharmono was elected vice president.

Despite his attempts to block Sudharmono, Suharto did not demote Moerdani and appointed him as the Minister of Defense and Security. However, Moerdani would lose most of his powers in September with the disbandment of Kopkamtib. During his term as Minister, Moerdani was accused of planning a coup against Suharto. Suharto was displeased with the nomination and only accepted Try reluctantly.

Suharto's consolation was that he did not name Moerdani to the next Cabinet. Contents move to sidebar hide. Hartini Moerdani. Lihat pertempuran. Menteri Pertahanan dan Keamanan. Tempo dalam bahasa Inggris. Diakses tanggal Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal Sinar Indonesia. Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia edisi ke-Cetakan pertama. ISBN OCLC Suara Merdeka Online.

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Kabinet Pembangunan V — Presiden : Soeharto Wakil Presiden : Soedharmono. Kementerian di bawah Menko Polkam : Sudomo. Menkeu : J. Kementerian di bawah Menko Kesra : Soepardjo Rustam. Sulasikin Murpratomo. Menteri dan pejabat setingkat menteri yang bertanggung jawab langsung kepada Presiden:. Sekretaris Kabinet : Saadillah Mursjid. Kabinet Pembangunan IV — Kementerian di bawah Menko Polkam : Surono Reksodimedjo.

Mendikbud : Nugroho Notosusanto , J. Sumarlin Plt. Menteri dan pejabat setingkat menteri yang bertanggungjawab langsung kepada Presiden:. Menmudseskab : Moerdiono. Menteri Pertahanan Indonesia. Kementerian Pertahanan. Nasution M. Sarbini Soeharto Maraden Panggabean M. Panglima Tentara Nasional Indonesia. Nasution Soerjadi Soerjadarma. Soeharto Maraden Panggabean M.

Jusuf L. Widodo A. Pengawasan otoritas. Amerika Serikat Belanda. Gulingkan daftar isi. Leonardus Benjamin Moerdani.