Former army intelligence officer Awal Nordin recounts his role in a massive operation that put an end to the expansion of the communist insurgency in Sarawak.
Awal Nordin said village heads played a crucial role as they could tell who the outsiders were and identify suspicious movements.
The intel gathered was crucial for the execution of a huge operation, known as “Ops Jala Raja”, which began in January 1970 and lasted three months.He said the operation killed 78 communist members and crippled the movement in Sarawak. Army intelligence officers also relied on footprints and other markings left by insurgents to detect their movement, he added.
Awal vividly recalls how he and three personnel from the Indonesian army disguised themselves as villagers to scout the jungle, eventually arriving at Sambas, a village in Kalimantan.
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