[3] In this capacity, he warned one of his brigade commanders, Suharto, about establishing transport enterprise using Army vehicles, which the future president had set up to provide jobs for veterans.

[6] In March 1952, Gatot moved to Makassar to take over command of the VII/Wirabuana Military Region, which covered all of Indonesia east of Java and Kalimantan.

This was one of a series of small-scale coups against officers blamed for their involvement in the 17 October 1952 incident where troops demonstrated in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta calling for the dissolution of the legislature.

[1][2] On 20 May 1953, he attended a meeting led by Nasution (also inactive) in Tugu, West Java at which it was decided to establish a political party to "fight for the return to the spirit of the 1945 Constitution.

The party won four seats in the 1955 election, and Gatot Soebroto became a member of the Indonesian legislature representing Central Java.

[5] Later that year, Nasution and Gatot Soebroto decided against taking further action against Soeharto after his dismissal from the command of the Diponegoro Division following revelations of involvement in smuggling.

[1] Gatot Soebroto died suddenly in Jakarta on 11 June 1962 and was buried in a Buddhist funeral ceremony in the village of Kalirejo Ungaran near Semarang.