Liputan6.com, Jakarta A well- renowned Indonesian sniper, Tatang Koswara has just recently passed away. The man who was known to be one among many of the great snipers in the world died on a Tuesday night (03/03/2015) shortly after he just finished being the guest of the Indonesian national television talk show "Hitam Putih" .
The body was then carried to the funeral house at around 01.00 am local time. The son of the recently deceased, Tubagus Abdiyuda said that his father was suppose to be buried in the tomb of heroes or the cemetery for Indonesian heroes. However, the graveyard is already packed so Tatang’s body will be buried in a specific location close to where he lives.
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"My dad was supposed to be buried in the heroes graveyard, but I was informed that it is full," Tubagus said at the funeral house in Bandung, Wednesday (04/03/2015).
Tubagus further explained the already suspicious symptoms his father went through prior to his death.
"So after a few segments in the "Hitam Putih" show, there was an interlude from a young singer Alifa and also there was a female police officer. After that, my father has to do another segment but he informed me how it is particularly hard for him to breath. This happened at around 19.00 or 19.30 pm that night," he explained.
Knowing that he was unable to breath, Tubagus immediately took his father to the nearest hospital in the South Jakarta area. However, his father had to bit the dust even before they reached the hospital.
His son came to reminisce all the good things about his father. He claims that his father was known to be the man who honours discipline and a hard worker that would exert all his power to attain his goal. His latest rank was the auxiliary lieutenant.
"He was a very discipline man, applying military-like moral and ethical codes at home so we were also born and raised to be as discipline as him. He was a role to look up to," Tubagus said as he shed tears.
The recently deceased sniper was born in Medan on the 16th of December 1946. Having an exceptionally dangerous duty, he has to leave his wife Tati Hayati most of the time, to raise the four children they had as he travelled here and there to fulfil the mission. He has been given an award 'Bintang Seroja' as he was involved in the military mission at East Timor in 1977 through to 1978.
"My father has also received an award from the United States, but I forgot what the award name was," Tubagus concluded. (Akp/Riz)