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On the pretext of stopping a communist coup, Nasution and Suharto led their forces to liquidate the PKI and topple the regime of Sukarno.
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General Nasution was believed to have launched his own bid for power on December 16, 1966, when he won appointment to the Supreme Operations Command, and gained a grip over the traditionally civilian-held portion of the military hierarchy.
Mr Nasution was the architect of the Indonesian armed forces' controversial role in politics and domination of civilian society that lasted for more than 30 years until the fall of former president Soeharto in 1998.
Mr Nasution was one of the masterminds of the strategy used by the then fledgling Indonesian guerilla army in fighting the Dutch colonial army in the 1940s.
In the later years of Soeharto's rule, Mr Nasution became a critic of the regime that is now widely discredited as corrupt and repressive, joining the influential Petition 50 dissident group.
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