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--- Rahman Dako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Temans,
>
> Hampir semua media massa di Indonesia, menjadi
> berbalik memuja Soeharto pada masa sakit sampe
> matinya. Tapi lihatlah kata Associated Press
> dibawah ini, beberapa menit setelah kematiannya:
>
> Salam,
> AGAG
>
> Former Indonesian dictator Suharto dies
> By ZAKKI HAKIM, Associated Press Writer 11 minutes
> ago
> JAKARTA, Indonesia - Former dictator Suharto, an
> army general who crushed Indonesia's communist
> movement and pushed aside the country's founding
> father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw
> up to a million political opponents killed, died
> Sunday. He was 86.
>
> Suharto had been ailing in a hospital in the capital
> since Jan. 4 when he was admitted with failing
> kidneys, heart and lungs. Doctors prolonged his life
> through dialysis and a ventilator, but his condition
> dramatically worsened over the weekend. He stopped
> breathing and slipped into a coma Sunday.
>
> A statement issued by chief presidential doctor,
> Marjo Subiandono, said he was declared dead at 1:10
> p.m. The cause of death was given as multi-organ
> failure.
>
> Finally toppled by mass street protests in 1998, the
> U.S. Cold War ally's departure opened the way for
> democracy in this predominantly Muslim nation of 235
> million people and he withdrew from public life,
> rarely venturing from his comfortable villa on a
> leafy lane in the capital.
>
> Suharto had ruled with a totalitarian dominance that
> saw soldiers stationed in every village, instilling
> a deep fear of authority across this Southeast Asian
> nation of some 6,000 inhabited islands that stretch
> across more than 3,000 miles.
> Since being forced from power, he had been in and
> out of hospitals after strokes caused brain damage
> and impaired his speech. Blood transfusions and a
> pacemaker prolonged his life, but he suffered from
> lung, kidney, liver and heart problems.
>
> Suharto was vilified as one of the world's most
> brutal rulers and was accused of overseeing a
> graft-ridden reign. But poor health and continuing
> corruption, critics charge kept him from court
> after he was chased from office by widespread unrest
> at the peak of the Asian financial crisis.
>
> The bulk of political killings blamed on Suharto
> occurred in the 1960s, soon after he seized power.
> In later years, some 300,000 people were slain,
> disappeared or jailed in the independence-minded
> regions of East Timor, Aceh and Papua, human rights
> groups and the United Nations say.
>
> Suharto's successors as head of state B.J.
> Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati Sukarnoputri
> and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed to end
> corruption that took root under Suharto, yet it
> remains endemic at all levels of Indonesian society.
>
> With the court system paralyzed by corruption, the
> country has not confronted its bloody past. Rather
> than put on trial those accused of mass murder and
> multibillion-dollar theft, some members of the
> political elite consistently called for charges
> against Suharto to be dropped on humanitarian
> grounds.
>
> Some noted Suharto also oversaw decades of economic
> expansion that made Indonesia the envy of the
> developing world. Today, nearly a quarter of
> Indonesians live in poverty, and many long for the
> Suharto era's stability, when fuel and rice were
> affordable.
>
> But critics say Suharto squandered Indonesia's vast
> natural resources of oil, timber and gold, siphoning
> the nation's wealth to benefit his cronies and
> family like a mafia don.
>
> Jeffrey Winters, associate professor of political
> economy at Northwestern University, said the graft
> effectively robbed "Indonesia of some of the most
> golden decades, and its best opportunity to move
> from a poor to a middle class country."
>
> "When Indonesia does finally go back and redo
> history, (its people) will realize that Suharto is
> responsible for some of the worst crimes against
> humanity in the 20th century," Winters added.
>
> Those who profited from Suharto's rule made sure he
> was never portrayed in a harsh light at home,
> Winters said, so even though he was an "iron-fisted,
> brutal, cold-blooded dictator," he was able to stay
> in his native country.
>
> Like many Indonesians, Suharto used only one name.
> He was born on June 8, 1921, to a family of rice
> farmers in the village of Godean, in the dominant
> Indonesian province of Central Java.
>
> When Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch in
> 1949, Suharto quickly rose through the ranks of the
> military to become a staff officer.
>
> His career nearly foundered in the late 1950s, when
> the army's then-commander, Gen. Abdul Haris
> Nasution, accused him of corruption in awarding army
> contracts.
>
> Absolute power came in September 1965 when the
> army's six top generals were murdered under
> mysterious circumstances, and their bodies dumped in
> an abandoned well in an apparent coup attempt.
>
> Suharto, next in line for command, quickly asserted
> authority over the armed forces and promoted himself
> to four-star general.
>
> Suharto then oversaw a nationwide purge of suspected
> communists and trade unionists, a campaign that
> stood as the region's bloodiest event since World
> War II until the Khmer Rouge established its
> gruesome regime in Cambodia a decade later. Experts
> put the number of deaths during the purge at between
> 500,000 and 1 million.
>
> Over the next year, Suharto eased out of office
> Indonesia's first post-independence president,
> Sukarno, who died under house arrest in 1970. The
> legislature rubber-stamped Suharto's presidency and
> he was re-elected unopposed six times.
>
> During the Cold War, Suharto was considered a
> reliable friend of Washington, which didn't oppose
> his violent occupation of Papua in 1969 and the
> bloody 1974 invasion of East Timor. The latter, a
> former Portuguese colony, became Asia's youngest
> country with a U.N.-sponsored plebiscite in 1999.
>
> Even Suharto's critics agree his hard-line policies
> kept a lid on Indonesia's extremists. He locked up
> hundreds of suspected Islamic militants without
> trial, some of whom later carried out deadly suicide
> bombings with the al-Qaida-linked terror network
> Jemaah Islamiyah after the Sept. 11 attacks on the
> U.S.
>
> Meanwhile, the ruling clique that formed around
> Suharto nicknamed the "Berkeley mafia" after their
> American university, the University of California,
> Berkeley transformed Indonesia's economy and
> attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment.
>
>
> By the late 1980s, Suharto was describing himself as
> Indonesia's "father of development," taking credit
> for slowly reducing the number of abjectly poor and
> modernizing parts of the nation.
>
> But the government also became notorious for
> unfettered nepotism, and Indonesia was regularly
> ranked as one of the world's most corrupt nations as
> Suharto's inner circle amassed fabulous wealth. The
> World Bank estimates 20 percent to 30 percent of
> Indonesia's development budget was embezzled during
> his rule.
>
> Even today, Suharto's children and aging associates
> have considerable sway over the country's business,
> politics and courts. Efforts to recover the money
> have been fruitless.
>
> Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala
> Putra, was released from prison in 2006 after
> serving a third of a 15-year sentence for ordering
> the assassination of a Supreme Court judge. Another
> son, Bambang Trihatmodjo, joined the Forbes list of
> wealthiest Indonesians in 2007, with $200 million
> from his stake in the conglomerate Mediacom.
> Suharto's economic policies, based on unsecured
> borrowing by his cronies, dramatically unraveled
> shortly before he was toppled in May 1998. Indonesia
> is still recovering from what economists called the
> worst economic meltdown anywhere in 50 years.
>
> State prosecutors accused Suharto of embezzling
> about $600 million via a complex web of foundations
> under his control, but he never saw the inside of a
> courtroom. In September 2000, judges ruled he was
> too
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