Rose Team

The infamous Tim Mawar (Rose Team) of the Army’s elite Special Forces (Kopassus)

is back in the spotlight following a report by Tempo weekly 

linking a former member of the unit to last month’s post-election riots in Jakarta.

Tim Mawar was previously implicated in a series of kidnappings and disappearances of pro-democracy activists in the late 1990s,

when the current chairman of the Gerindra Party, Prabowo, was heading Kopassus.

Tempo’s report  revealed that

former Tim Mawar member Fauka Noor Farid played a key part in mobilizing the protests

 that resulted in violence and rioting between the evening of May 21 and the early hours of May 23.

Fauka is also a member of Gerindra

According to the report, he arranged meetings to discuss the protests with other members of Garda Pra - a Prabo sup...