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under

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between 1993 and 1998, and as Governor of

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between 1985 and 1993. He was also commander of the special forces unit Kopassandha and of the Siliwangi Military Region. Born in

Cirebon Cirebon (, formerly rendered Cheribon or Chirebon in English) is a port city on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is the only coastal city of West Java, located about 40 km west of the provincial border with Central J ...

, Yogie joined the armed forces as a student soldier during the

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, and continued to serve in the army. Darul Islam leader

Abdul Kahar Muzakkar Abdul Kahar Muzakkar (24 March 1921 – 3 February 1965) was the leader of an Islamic movement in South Sulawesi from 1950 till his death in 1965. He led his group of men in a guerrilla warfare against the Indonesian central government, and was ...

was killed by a soldier under his command in 1965, and by 1975 he had been appointed as commander of the special forces unit Kopassandha. He oversaw Kopassandha's operations in

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during the Indonesian invasion, although later on he was appointed to other posts and he passed on command of Kopassandha in 1983. After his military career, he became governor of West Java in 1985, his second term being interrupted in 1993 when he was appointed as Home Affairs Minister. During his tenure as minister, he actively intervened within the

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in order to disrupt the party's capability to challenge the New Order government.

Early life and career

Yogie was born in

on 16 May 1929. He graduated from the colonial elementary school (

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) in 1942, from middle school in 1945, and from a high school in 1950. During the

, he fought as a guerilla soldier in a student unit, operating in Cirebon. He also participated in fighting against the

Indonesian Communist Party The Communist Party of Indonesia ( Indonesian: ''Partai Komunis Indonesia'', PKI) was a communist party in the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesia. It was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world before its violent disbandment in ...

in the

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. After the revolution, he joined the armed forces, participating in operations against the

Darul Islam rebellion The Darul Islam rebellion ( Indonesian: ''Pemberontakan Darul Islam'') was a war waged between 1949 and 1962 by the Islamic State of Indonesia, commonly known as Darul Islam, to establish an Islamic state in Indonesia. The rebellion was launche ...

and later against the

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Later military career

In 1965, Yogie as a

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was commander of the 330th airborne infantry battalion assigned to

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tasked with hunting down Darul Islam leader

. On 3 February that year, one of the soldiers under his command found and killed Muzakkar. Later that year, Yogie also took part in crackdowns against the Indonesian Communist Party. In 1974, he was assigned to the

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under the

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. On 31 May 1975, Yogie as a

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was appointed as commander of the Kopassandha special forces unit, having been its deputy commander for two years at that point. Shortly after he took command, he organized several platoons of special forces which were to infiltrate into

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to support and liaise with pro-Indonesian partisans. By 1976, after the

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, Yogie had been promoted to brigadier general and Kopassandha under him launched paratrooper operations, including the capture of

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in February. Later on, he was concurrently appointed as commander of the Siliwangi Military Command in West Java (1978), and further on as commander of the 2nd Military Region covering

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and

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(1983). Due to his other postings, Yogie tended to leave Kopassandha's operations to his deputies. He was replaced as Kopassandha commander by Wismoyo Arismunandar in March 1983. By the time he left Kopassandha, Yogie had been promoted once more to major general. He had been promoted to

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by April 1983.

Governor and minister

On 20 May 1985, Yogie was appointed and sworn in as governor of

. He was reelected in 1990 for a second term. He popularized the motto "Tibmanra" (''Tertib, Aman, dan Sejahtera''/Orderly, Safe, and Prosperous) during his tenure. His second term was cut short when he was appointed as

in 1993. Despite his appointment as minister, he held on to the gubernatorial position for around another month. As home affairs minister, Yogie paused an ongoing project to centralize identity card data. In December 1993, Yogie attempted to install his former vice governor in West Java, the ethnically Sundanese

Karna Suwanda Karna (Sanskrit: कर्ण, IAST: ''Karṇa''), also known as Vasusena, Anga-Raja, Sutaputra and Radheya, is one of the major characters in the Hinduism, Hindu epic ''Mahābhārata''. He is the son of Surya (the Sun deity) and princess Kun ...

, as governor of

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. Suwanda's candidacy, however, was hotly contested by local residents who wanted a governor hailing from there. While Suwanda won the legislative vote against a local candidate, this caused a significant unrest in the region, and the central government eventually backed down with both Suwanda and the local candidate being made to withdraw their candidacies. In an attempt to calm the situation, Yogie installed a caretaker governor, giving assurances to local politicians that the caretaker was ineligible to run as governor. Eventually, , a bureaucrat, was appointed by Yogie and was elected without further incident in 1994. In July 1993, Yogie utilized thugs to disrupt an

(PDI) congress in

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, and as a result of the chaos he managed to invalidate the election of Suryadi as chairman. In response, the party launched an extraordinary congress in December 1993 which resulted in

Megawati Sukarnoputri Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri (; born 23 January 1947) is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and the eighth vice president under President Abdurrahman Wahid from 1999 to 200 ...

being elected chairman. This result caused dismay in the

government, and Yogie met with Megawati later that month. In behalf of Suharto's government, Yogie informed Megawati that the government would accept the election result, provided the party hold another national congress and include a number of government-selected members into the party's leadership. The government would acknowledge the party's leadership by February 1994. The party members appointed by the government were opposed to Megawati's leadership, and Yogie continued to support them to weaken Megawati. By 1996, Yogie along with others such as

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and Syarwan Hamid were tasked by Suharto to remove Megawati from PDI's leadership, as Megawati was becoming an increasing challenge to Suharto's presidency. In order to do this, the government sponsored a competing congress in Medan which elected the previously ousted Suryadi as PDI chairman. Megawati and her supporters refused to accept the congress' outcome and continued to occupy PDI's offices in Jakarta, resulting in the

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when thugs assaulted the building and five people died. When the government began planning to move Indonesia's capital from Jakarta to

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, Yogie planned for a direct road between the two, going through the present-day developments in

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and Cileungsi. The road is named the after him. After his ministerial tenure, he was appointed as a member of the

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in June 1998, serving until 2003.

Family and death

He was married to Emmy Sariamah, and had two children. Yogie died on 7 June 2007 at

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's Advent Hospital due to kidney failure. He had suffered from the disease for four years prior to his death, and he had been in intensive care for a month prior to his death. He was buried at Cikutra Heroes' Cemetery in Bandung the following day.

References

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