Search results
27 de ene. de 2008 · Jan. 27, 2008. Suharto, whose 32-year dictatorship in Indonesia was one of the most brutal and corrupt of the 20th century, died Sunday in Jakarta, his doctors said. He was 86. Suharto had been ...
Suharto resigned as President of Indonesia on 21 May 1998 following the collapse of support for his 32-year long presidency. Vice President B. J. Habibie took over the presidency.. Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe economic and political crises stemming from the 1997 Asian financial crisis.The economy suffered a flight of foreign capital, leading to a drastic drop in the value ...
28 de ene. de 2008 · Suharto, 86, had clung to life tenaciously after being admitted to a Jakarta hospital three weeks ago with failing kidneys, heart and lungs. Yesterday, despite the efforts of dozens of Indonesia's ...
While the exact role of the U.S. government during the massacres remains obscured by still-sealed government archives on Indonesia for this period, it is known that "at a minimum," the U.S. government supplied money and communications equipment to the Indonesian Army that facilitated the mass killings, gave fifty million rupiah to the KAP-Gestapu death squad, and provided targeted names of ...
27 de ene. de 2008 · Suharto, who used only one name in common with many of his countrymen, was born in Java in 1921. Accounts of his early years differ, but his family is known to have been large and poor. During World War II, Japanese forces occupied Indonesia - then part of the Dutch East Indies empire. The young Suharto was trained by a Japanese-created militia.
27 de ene. de 2008 · Estimates for the death toll range from a government figure of 78,000 to 1 million cited by U.S. historians Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr, who have published books on Indonesia’s history.
By. Michael G. Vann. The US-backed Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for some of the twentieth century’s worst crimes. More than two decades after Suharto’s death, his regime’s brutal legacy is still holding back democracy in Indonesia. Ghosts and Gramsci can help us understand contemporary Indonesian politics.
