Yapto Soerjosoemarno, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Indonesian politician
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Place of Birth: Surakarta, Indonesia
About Yapto Soerjosoemarno
- Yapto Soerjosoemarno, full name KRT.
- Yapto Soelistyo Soerjosoemarno, S.H, is an Indonesian politician who is known as the leader of Pemuda Pancasila (Pancasila Youth), an organization of quasi-official political gangsters that supported the New Order military dictatorship of Soeharto, while also engaging in other lucrative but non-official criminal acts.
- Pemuda Pancasila played an important role in supporting Soeharto's military coup in 1965: they ran death squads for the Indonesian army, murdering thousands of alleged communists across the province of North Sumatra. He was born 16 December 1949, in Surakarta, Central Java.
- His father, Ir.
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- Soetarjo Soerjosoemarno, is a member of the Mangkunegaran Javanese nobility.
- Soerjosoemarno is also an expert in topography and geodesy who finished his education in the Netherlands.
- His mother, Dolly Zegerius, who is of Jewish Dutch origin is a competitive contract bridge player, and a naturalised Indonesian citizen Yapto Soerjosoemarno is known as the leader of Pemuda Pancasila (Pancasila Youth), an organization of semi-official political gangsters that supported the New Order military dictatorship of Soeharto.
- Indeed, Pemuda Pancasila played an important role in supporting Soeharto's military coup in 1965: they ran death squads for the Indonesian army, murdering thousands of alleged communists and Chinese Indonesians across the province of North Sumatra.
- The leaders of these death squads, Effendy Nasution, Jan Pahrum Lubis, Roshiman and others selected Yapto to lead Pancasila Youth in 1980.
- In addition to leading Pancasila Youth, Yapto today leads a political party formally affiliated with Pancasila Youth called the Patriot Party.
- He is also a lawyer and owns a law firm in South Jakarta, Indonesia.
- The Patriot Party is known for its loyalty to the family of former Indonesian President, the late General Suharto. Yapto also heads other 'youth gangs'.Yapto featured in the award-winning 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, in which he is shown as a wealthy and misogynistic he-man.
- He has threatened to sue the film's director or producers.Yapto married Retno Suciati and has three children: Golda Nayawitri B.D.K, Sahid Abishalom B.N.N.S, and Jedidiah Shenazar K.S.
- The Soerjosoemarno family includes several performers: Yapto's elder sister Marini is an actress, and his niece Shelomita (Marini's daughter) is a singer.
- Both he and his family have had frequent brushes with the law and have been detained.On 12 March 2011, Yapto received a bomb disguised as a book named Apakah Masih Ada Pancasila (Does the Pancasila still exist?).
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