Alexander Evert Kawilarang
Alex Kawilarang was an Indonesian military officer, a freedom fighter and founder of the military unit Kesko TT in 1952, the founding name of the Indonesian special forces unit Kopassus. However, in 1959 he resigned his post as Military attach to the United States to become a General in the separatist Permesta movement where he encountered Kopassus as his opponent.
Colonel Kawilarang was born in Meester Cornelis in the Dutch East Indies, and died in Jakarta, Indonesia. His father Major A.H.H. Kawilarang was a professional soldier in the Dutch colonial army . Both his parents are from the Minahasa. His first Indo wife is Nelly van Amden with whom he had a daughter and a son.
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