Suharto died on January 27, aged 86.(The Week)(Obituary)(Brief article)

From: National Review | Date: February 25, 2008 | Copyright information

Suharto died on January 27, aged 86. His name--like most Javanese, he had just the one--flickered in the background of international news for decades, rarely reaching the front pages, because Indonesia is not a very consequential nation. It is a very big nation, though--the fourth biggest in the world, with more Muslims than any other--and is spread across the strategic space between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Suharto ruled his country as an authoritarian dictator for 31 years, until the Asian financial crisis of 1997-8. He was, as Lyndon Johnson would have said, an SOB, but ...

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