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JAKARTA: The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 ...
Former general set to become Indonesia’s new president ... disappearances and other human rights abuses in the final years of the brutal Suharto dictatorship, ...
Suharto dismissed the allegations even after leaving office in 1998. Subianto enrolled in Indonesia’s Military Academy in 1970, graduating in 1974 and serving in the military for nearly three ...
JAKARTA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Nearly three decades after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian leader, General Suharto, the nation's new president is causing unease among liberals and others by ...
NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jakarta, Indonesia, that former President Suharto is set to go on trial on charges of corruption. The 79-year-old Suharto is accused of amassing a fortune, along ...
A wealthy former general with ties to both Indonesia's popular outgoing president and the country's dictatorial past will be inaugurated Sunday as the nation's new leader.
And there was quiet, almost shy Army Lieut. General Suharto, Indonesia’s apparent new strongman, sitting on Dewi’s right. As photographers clicked away, the dinner guests sipped their soup in ...
In 1965, following a failed coup attempt, General Suharto led a violent purge, killing an estimated 500,000 to a million people, mostly accused communists and leftists.
Responsible for shaping modern Indonesia, Haji Muhammad Suharto was known as the "smiling general," but his legacy as one of the great Cold War era strongmen was built on corruption and a reign of ...
The Ikeya-Seki comet appeared on Indonesia’s eastern horizon early one morning last October. From the base of the volcano Agung, navel of creation and home of the Great Gods, the mystic prophets of ...
Suharto dismissed the allegations even after leaving office in 1998. Subianto enrolled in Indonesia’s Military Academy in 1970, graduating in 1974 and serving in the military for nearly three ...