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Donald Isaac Pandjaitan
Donald Isaac Pandjaitan (9 June 1925 – 1 October 1965) adalah Jenderal TNI yang gugur dan diculik oleh gerakan G30S-PKI pada tanggal 1 Oktober 1965Donald Isaac Pandjaitan (9 June 1925 – 1 October 1965) was an Indonesian general who was killed during a kidnap attempt by members of the 30 September Movement.
Mayor Jenderal TNI Anumerta Donald Isaac Panjaitan (lahir di Balige, Sumatera Utara, 19 Juni 1925 – meninggal di Lubang Buaya, Jakarta, 1 Oktober 1965 pada umur 40 tahun) adalah salah satu pahlawan revolusi Indonesia. Ia dimakamkan di Taman Makam Pahlawan Kalibata, Jakarta
Kalimat di foto atas dikutip dari Amanat Panglima Perang 1945, Jenderal Sudirman: "TNI bukan alat partai atau milik golongan. TNI lahir dari rakyat (TKR-Tentara keamanan Rakyat dan BKR Badan Keamanan Rakyat), oleh rakyat, untuk rakyat dan selalu bersama rakyat"; "Tentara bukan suatu kasta berdiri diatas rakyat, bukan diluar rakyat, tetapi bersatu dengan rakyat". Artinya keberlangsungan TNI hanya jika bersatu dengan rakyat.
Karir Militer
Ketika Indonesia sudah meraih kemerdekaan, ia bersama para pemuda lainnya membentuk Tentara Keamanan Rakyat (TKR) yang kemudian menjadi TNI. Di TKR, ia pertama kali ditugaskan menjadi komandan batalyon, kemudian menjadi Komandan Pendidikan Divisi IX/Banteng di Bukittinggi pada tahun 1948. Seterusnya menjadi Kepala Staf Umum IV (Supplay) Komandemen Tentara Sumatera. Dan ketika Pasukan Belanda melakukan Agresi Militernya yang Ke II, ia diangkat menjadi Pimpinan Perbekalan Perjuangan Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia (PDRI).
Setelah penyerang mengancam keluarganya, Panjaitan turun dengan seragam yang lengkap sambil menyerahkan diri kepada Yang Maha Esa untuk memenuhi panggilan tugas yang dimanupalasi oleh gerombolan PKI dan ditembak mati. mayatnya dimasukkan ke dalam truk dan dibawa kembali ke markas gerakan itu di Lubang Buaya. Kemudian, tubuh dan orang-orang dari rekan-rekannya dibunuh tersembunyi di sebuah sumur tua. Mayat ditemukan pada tanggal 4 Oktober, dan semua diberi pemakaman kenegaraan pada hari berikutnya. Panjaitan mendapat promosi anumerta kepada
Tanda Tangan DI. Pandjaitan (dari keluarga):
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Early life
D.I. Pandjaitan was born in Sitorang, Balige in the Tapanuli region of North Sumatra. After completing elementary and high school, with the arrival of the Invading Japanese, he underwent Japanese Giyugun military education 1944. He was then posted to Pekanbaru, and was there when Indonesian independence was declared on 17 August 1945.
Career with the Indonesian military
In November 1945, Pandjaitan, together with other young people, helped establish a local branch of the People's Security Army (TKR), initially serving as a battalion commander. In March 1948 he was appointed commander of the commander for organization and education of XI/Banteng Division at Bukittinggi, West Sumatra. Not long after, he became fourth deputy commander (supplies) for the Sumatran Army Command, then when the Dutchlaunched their second "police action" against the republic, he was put in charge of supplies for the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia.[3]. PDRI (Pemerintahan Darurat Indonesia, Bukit Tinggi 1948, Presiden Bung Hatta)
After the Dutch recognition of Indonesian sovereignty in 1949, Pandjaitan was posted to the headquarters of the TT/I Sumatran Division in Medan, and on 2 January 1950 became head of the operational staff of the TT.I / Bukit Barisan Division. He was then transferred to Palembang, South Sumatra and appointed deputy commander of the II/Sriwijaya Division. From October 1952 to July 1957, he served as the military attache to the Indonesian embassy in Bonn,West Germany. Upon his return to Indonesia, he joined the Army General Staff. He attended a course at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth from December 1963 to June 1964. He then took up his final post as fourth assistant to the Army chief of staff.
Death
In the early hours of October 1, 1965, a group of members of the 30 September Movement left the Lubang Buaya (lit: Crocodile Hole) area on the eastern outskirts of Jakarta to seize a number of key military figures and take them hostage. Pandjaitan was one of the senior military figures they planned to take prisoner. The group broke the fence near Pandjaitan's house in Jalan Hasanudin, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, and shot who was sleeping on the ground floor of two-story house before calling on Pandjaitan to come down. Two of the young men involved at the time were students, Pandjaitan nephews, Albert Naiborhu, who was shot and killed and Viktor Naiborhu was shot but survived. Both were seriously injured during a fight when DI Pandjaitan was kidnapped. Albert died shortly afterwards. Below Albert foto in 1965 when he was an economics student at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta:
After the attackers threatened his family, Pandjaitan came down in full military uniform and surrendered. Pandjaitan was then shot and killed by a rouge military which was manipulated by the PKI. His body was put in a truck and taken back to the movement's headquarters at Lubang Buaya. Then his body along with those of a number of his colleagues who had also been killed were thrown into a nearby well (a lubang). The bodies were discovered on October 4, and all were given a state funeral the following day. Pandjiatan along with the other prominent military figures who were killed in the early hours of 1 October 1965 are buried at the Kalibata Heroes Cemetery in South Jakarta. Pandjaitan was posthumously promoted to Major General and awarded the title 'Hero of the Revolution'. (Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).
