Demokrasi era suharto biography
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Acting presidency of Suharto
Time of transition to the New Order
The acting presidency of Suharto followed the transition to the New beställning in which Army General Suharto assumed presidential powers to "restore" law and order following the now-disputed attempted coup which led to anti-communist purges. The begrepp lasted from 12 March 1967 until 27 March 1968, when Suharto was officially inaugurated as the second president of Indonesia.
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By February 1967, President Sukarno, realizing that his political career was at an end, became concerned at cutting his losses. On 7 February, he sent a letter to Suharto saying that he was willing to hand over the running of the government to the general but also added that he would like to continue on as head of state.[1] In the time between the ankomst of that letter and the formulation of the reply, the People's Representative Council (DPR) passed a resolution which called for a special session of the Provisional People's C
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Suharto
President of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998
In this Indonesian name, there is no family name nor a patronymic.
Suharto[b][c] (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician, who served as the second and longest serving president of Indonesia.
Suharto's presidency and legacy are highly divisive. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime from 1967 until his resignation in 1998 following nationwide unrest.[3][4][5] His 31-year rule over Indonesia is considered one of the most controversial in the 20th century due to allegations of corruption and his government's huvud role to the perpetration of mass killings against communists early in his rule and subsequent discrimination of ethnic Chinese Indonesians, irreligious people, and trade unionists.[6][7][8] However, he has been praised fo
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Together these four sides were highly distrustful towards each other, culminating in the tragedies of the mid 1960s when a group of leftist officers, allegedly influenced by the communist PKI party, committed a pre-emptive coup against seven top army officers who, allegedly, wanted to topple president Soekarno. Suharto, a high officer who took control over the army during these chaotic days, blamed the coup on the PKI and in the following months hundreds of thousands of communists were slaughtered on Sumatra, Java and Bali. Although much of the facts will remain unknown, it became clear that General Suharto emerged as the strong power out of the chaos in the mid-1960s.
The Transfer of Power; the Old Order Becomes the New Order
On 11 March 1966 Indonesia was still in a state of total shock and chaos. On that particular day president Soekarno was pressured into signing a decree in which army officer Suharto received full power to guarantee security, calm and stability in the c