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Date:
Sat, 2 February 2008 9:32 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject:
Indonesian Smiling General Had Passed Away
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File photo dated March,
1967 shows general Suharto, who was just appointed president of
Indonesia, sitting for the first time in the presidential seat until
then occupied by outgoing president Sukarno. Suharto, who died
Sunday aged 86, was a ruthless dictator whose success presiding over
huge economic progress was overshadowed by a legacy of bloodshed,
human rights abuses and corruption on a colossal scale
(AFP/File)
Sun Jan 27, 3:44 AM ET |
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File photo dated 1986
shows Indonesian President Suharto smiling in Jakarta. The United
States Sunday hailed former Indonesian president Suharto as a
"historic figure" who "achieved remarkable economic development," in
a statement released by its embassy here.
(AFP/File/Philippe
Bouchon)
Sun
Jan 27, 4:32 PM ET
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US President Richard
Nixon (R) meets with Suharto in Washington, DC in 1970. The
United States declassified documents Monday detailing how Washington
propped up ex-Indonesian leader Suharto, who died at the weekend, at
the expense of democracy and human rights.
(AFP/File)
Tue
Jan 29, 2:34 AM ET |
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US President George
Bush (R) meeting with Indonesian President Suharto (L) in
Washington DC in 1989. The United States declassified documents
Monday detailing how Washington propped up ex-Indonesian leader
Suharto, who died at the weekend, at the expense of democracy and
human rights.
(AFP/File/Jerome
Delay)
Tue
Jan 29, 2:34 AM ET |
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Former Indonesian President Suharto (L)
sits with former U.S. President Bill Clinton as the two meet
in Vancouver before the start of an APEC leaders meeting in this
November 24, 1997 file photo. Suharto, who ruled with an iron fist
for 32 years, has died, a senior police official told reporters on
January 27, 2008 at the hospital where he was being treated.
(Stringer/Files/Reuters)
Mon Jan 28, 3:26 AM ET |
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Former Indonesian
president Suharto lies on a hospital bed after undergoing a scan at
Pertamina hospital in Jakarta, January 08. Suharto, who ruled
Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades, died on Sunday
aged 86, his family and police said at a Jakarta hospital
(AFP/The
President Post/File/Yaumil Fadhil)
Sun
Jan 27, 3:10 AM ET
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Singapore's Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong leaves the former President
Suharto's house in Jakarta January 27, 2008 after his visit of
condolence. Former president Suharto, hailed as the father of
development by some Indonesians during his 32 years in power and
accused of corruption and rights abuses by others, died on Sunday
after a long illness. He was 86. REUTERS/Supri
(INDONESIA)
Sun
Jan 27, 9:20 AM ET |
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A convoy carrying the
coffin of Indonesia's former president Suharto drives through the
streets of Jakarta ahead of a state funeral, January 28. Tens of
thousands of people jammed Jakarta's streets Monday to say a final
farewell to Suharto as his coffin was borne in a hearse towards his
last resting place.
(AFP/Bay
Ismoyo)
Mon
Jan 28, 3:31 AM ET
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Former Australian prime minister Paul
Keating (C) is seen among guests during the funeral of former
Indonesian president Suharto in Tawang Mangu, January 28, 2008.
Former Indonesian president Suharto, whose 32 years in power were
marred by graft and rights abuses, was buried near the royal city of
Solo in a state funeral with full military honours on Monday.
REUTERS/Adek Berry/Pool
(INDONESIA)
Mon Jan 28, 5:02 AM ET
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Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib
Razak (L) is seen among guests during the funeral of Suharto in
Tawang Mangu January 28, 2008. Suharto, whose 32 years in power were
marred by graft and rights abuses, was buried near the royal city of
Solo in a state funeral with full military honours on Monday.
REUTERS/Adek Berry/Pool
(INDONESIA)
Mon Jan 28, 4:50 AM ET
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Soldiers carry the coffin
of former Indonesian president Suharto in Jakarta January 28, 2008.
(Resmi
Malau/Reuters)
Mon
Jan 28, 7:24 AM ET
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Relatives pray near the
grave of former Indonesian president Suharto at Astana Giribangun
family mausoleum in Karanganyar regency, Indonesia's Central Java
province January 28, 2008. Tens of thousands of people lined the
roads around Indonesia's royal city of Solo on Monday as the body of
autocratic former president Suharto arrived for a state funeral at
the family's mausoleum.
REUTERS/Rumgapres/Muchlis Said/Handout (INDONESIA). EDITORIAL USE
ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. Mon Jan
28, 5:54 AM ET
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Thousands of people jam a
street leading to the Suharto family cemetery to say a final
farewell to former Indonesian dictator Suharto Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
in Solo, Indonesia. Suharto who died Sunday, was mourned by tens of
thousands of Indonesians with many praising the Cold War ally of the
United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of
thousands of left-wing political opponents.
(AP
Photo/Sumaryanto Bronto)
Mon Jan 28, 3:35 AM ET |
The smiling general had gone away.
Former second president of Indonesia, former president Soeharto, died in
the RSPP hospital in Jakarta on 27 January 2008. Up to is death there were
still some controversies among those who supporting him and those who
opposing him.
His supporters often mentioned about his good deeds to Indonesia, among
which was the stable 7% rate of economic growth, and some other things
like good economic condition, high stability and others.
Those opposing him kept on reminding about his legacy of bloodshed,
human rights abuses and corruption on a colossal scale.
Sometimes there were also some suspicions on me because when I was in the
Senior High School, I was at the same school with her daughter Titiek. I
could have been suspected of also have gained some corruption kind of
wealth from my relationship with her.
I would have own my own house and cars if I did such a thing.
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