It sought to reconcile loyalty to Suharto with its understanding for the demands of the reform movement. Its principal interest was to maintain control of the situation and avoid any sudden power vacuum which might then lead to chaos. General Suharto did everything in his power to divide the leadership of the military, but it is likely that a concern for an orderly transition to reform will carry the day and that General Wiranto will work to see this transition carried through. He runs a variety of concerns, including the IPTN aircraft factory, the shipyards at Surabaya, an arms factory, a major technological research centre and the development project for the island of Batam. He plays an important role in the governing Golkar party, and is president of the Association of Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals set up by president Suharto in 1990.
Personal debt is accounted for by only about fifty people, all part of the president's entourage.