Alex Kawilarang (23 February 1920 – 6 June 2000) is an Indonesian national hero, a freedom fighter and founder of the military unit 'Kesko TT' in 1952, the founding name of the now famous Indonesian special forces unit Kopassus. However in 1959 he resigned his post as Military attaché to the United States to become a General in the separatist Permesta movement where he encountered Kopassus as his opponent.