Sintong Panjaitan received 20 operation orders at home and abroad during his military career.
13 Facts About Sintong Panjaitan
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Sintong Panjaitan was removed from his position as regional military commander due to the Dili incident at the Santa Cruz cemetery in 1991, which causing the decline of his career in the military before retiring with the rank of lieutenant general.
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Sintong Panjaitan's father, Simon Luther Panjaitan was a Mantri at Centrale Burgelijke Ziekenhuis Semarang.
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Sintong Panjaitan began to carry arms in high school when he participated in a 3-month military training course carried out by the PRRI movement under the leadership of Colonel Maludin Simbolon.
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In February 1965, Sintong Panjaitan attended commando basic education at the Army Command Education Center at Batujajar.
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Sintong Panjaitan obtained the Command attribute at Permisan Beach, on August 1,1965, and returned to Batujajar for Para basic education, experiencing 3 falls.
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Sintong Panjaitan led a platoon of troops to seize the headquarters of Radio Republik Indonesia, which allowed Brigadier General Ibnu Subroto to broadcast the message of Major General Suharto.
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Sintong Panjaitan took part in securing Halim Perdanakusuma Airfield and led his men in the discovery of an old well at Lubang Buaya.
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In 1969 Captain Feisal Tanjung included Sintong Panjaitan to persuade tribal chiefs in West Irian to choose to join Indonesia in the Act of Free Choice.
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Sintong Panjaitan became Commander of Kopassandha from 1985 to 1987, replacing Brigadier General.
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Sintong Panjaitan was the leader of the Para Command Group-1, involved in counter-terrorism operations in the hijacking of the Garuda DC-9 Woyla on March 31,1981.
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Sintong Panjaitan was later removed from his post as commander due to the Dili Incident at the Santa Cruz cemetery, on 11 November 1991, which resulted in civilian casualties and an international scandal, ending Sintong Panjaitan's military career.
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Sintong Panjaitan became a trusted adviser to Habibie until Habibie became President of Indonesia in 1998 where Sintong Panjaitan sat as an adviser to the President in the military field.