Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief Wiranto, who launched a solo album of classic Indonesian love songs last year, will soon provide the voice for a cartoon character.

General Wiranto will lend his voice to an elephant character in a local folk tale.

He will be one of several celebrities to lend their voices in the cartoon series that will be aired by a new private Indonesian television channel soon.

Others celebrities involved include leading poet and playwright W. S. Rendra, tenor Amoroso Katamsi and former film actress Yenni Rachman.

Last year, Gen Wiranto launched a solo album featuring classic Indonesian love songs. Some of the 17 songs were popular numbers of the 1940s. Music experts said his effort was "not bad".

The general was military chief when pro-Indonesian militias launched a campaign of systematic terror, killing and destruction in East Timor following a pro-independence ballot there in 1999.