Controversies Live On After Suharto’s Death in Indonesia

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Controversies Live On After Suharto’s Death in Indonesia

AP photo / Vincent Thian

A Suharto supporter holds up an image of the former president on Jan. 12.

On Monday, a day after his death, former Indonesian President Suharto was given a state funeral and buried in Java, sparking mixed reaction as Indonesians recalled both the strong points and the controversial (even despotic) sides of the man who was their nation’s leader for more than 30 years.

BBC:

Suharto, who ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, was credited with leading his country from poverty to relative prosperity.

But he was dogged by allegations of corruption, political repression and serious human rights abuses.

Hundreds of thousands of suspected communists were killed as he rose to power in the 1960s.

He was ousted by mass protests in 1998 and in recent years suffered from poor health - one of the reasons why he never faced trial.

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By Expat, January 29, 2008 at 2:57 am Link to this comment

^ not for me they don’t and I seriously doubt Amy Goodman looks at it that way. She and her fellow reporter were nearly beaten to death by Indonesian soldiers and they were the lucky ones. Thanks once again to President Carter, Clinton, and many others in the U.S. government; we exceed ourselves in war crimes as usual. If there is a god, then certainly there is a devil; and the devil is the one watching over us. Many of the wests leaders both past and present had better pray there is no reckoning.

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By P. T., January 28, 2008 at 10:05 am Link to this comment

Amy Goodman’s program for Monday, January 28 is about Suharto. Click http://www.democracynow.org

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