Biography of General D.I Panjaitan

General D.I Panjaitan

  Posthumous Major General of the Indonesian National Army Donald Isaac Panjaitan was born in Balige, Tapanuli, June 9 1925. Formal education started from elementary school, then entered junior high school, and finally high school. When he finished high school, Indonesia was under Japanese occupation. So when he joins the military he has to take Gyugun training. After training, he was assigned as a member of the Gyugun in Pekanbaru, Riau until Indonesia proclaimed its independence. When Indonesia achieved independence, he and other young people formed the People's Security Army (PSA) which later became the TNI.

  At TKR, he was first assigned to be a battalion commander, then became the Education Commander of Division IX/Banteng in Bukittinggi in 1948. Then he became Chief of General Staff IV (Supplay) of the Sumatran Army Command. And when the Dutch troops carried out their Second Military Aggression, he was appointed as Leader of the Struggle Provisions for the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia (PPDRI). Along with the end of the Second Dutch Military Aggression, Indonesia also received recognition of sovereignty. Panjaitan himself was then appointed Chief of Staff for Army and Territory Operations (T&T) I Bukit Barisan in Medan. Then he was transferred again to Palembang to become Chief of Staff of T & T II/Sriwijaya.

  After taking the Military Attache (Milat) course in 1956, he was assigned as an Indonesian Military Attache in Bonn, West Germany. When his term of duty as Military Attaché ended, he returned to Indonesia. However, not long after that, namely in 1962, this officer who had studied at the Associated Command and General Staff College, United States, was appointed Assistant IV to the Minister / Commander of the Army (Men / Pangad). This was the last position he held when the G 30/S PKI incident occurred.

  When he served as Assistant IV Men/Army Commander, he took notes A separate achievement for his success in uncovering the secret of weapons shipments from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the PKI. From there it was discovered that the weapons were put in crates of building materials that would be used in the construction of the Conefo (Conference of the New Emerging Forces) building. These weapons were needed by the PKI, which was actively preparing to launch a rebellion.

  In the early hours of 1 October 1965, a group of members of the 30 September Movement left Lubang Buaya for the outskirts of Jakarta. They forced their way into the gate of Panjaitan's house on Jalan Hasanudin, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, then shot and killed one of the servants who was sleeping on the ground floor of the two-story house and called for Panjaitan to come downstairs. Two young men, namely Albert Naiborhu and Viktor Naiborhu, were seriously injured while fighting when D.I. Panjaitan was kidnapped, and not long afterward Albert died. After the attacker threatened his family, Panjaitan stepped down.

  He then tried to escape and was shot dead. His body was put in a truck and taken back to the movement's headquarters in Lubang Buaya. Later, the bodies and those of his murdered comrades were hidden in an old well. The bodies were discovered on October 4, and all were given state funerals the following day. Panjaitan received a posthumous promotion to Major General and was given the title Hero of the Revolution.

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