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...His grandfather was an important figure in Indonesia’s independence movement, while his father was a prominent economist who served in Suharto’s cabinet....
...Prabowo spent decades in the military until he was ousted in 1998 over his alleged involvement in the kidnappings of pro-democracy activists during the regime of late autocrat Suharto....
...But some political analysts have warned that Prabowo could test Indonesia’s hard-won democracy, which was established in 1998 after bloody unrest that unseated autocrat Suharto, his former father-in-law....
...Prabowo served as a special forces commander under the late autocrat Suharto, who was also his former father-in-law....
...The first is an infamous snap of Indonesia’s Suharto signing an IMF programme under the stern gaze of the Fund’s then-managing director Michel Camdessus, and the second Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness...
...Although elected, India’s Narendra Modi and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu are the rough equivalents of Pakistan’s Yahya Khan and Indonesia’s Suharto....
...A hotly contested race in February reflects how far the world’s fourth most populous country has moved since the overthrow of the autocrat Suharto 25 years ago....
...Indonesia’s democracy, which sprang back to life in 1998 after the downfall of the autocrat Suharto amid the turmoil of the emerging markets crisis, does indeed have a record of electoral upsets....
...In contrast, in Indonesia, where the 1998 crisis toppled the dictator Suharto, the rupiah trades near 15,500 to the dollar, down from 2,400 before the crisis....
...Tugu, with its raised heritage houses and to-the-letter faithful designs), nor the oldest (that’s probably Tandjung Sari, opened in 1962 and famously patronised by David Bowie, Mick Jagger and multiple Suhartos...
...They remember 1998, when during the Asian currency crisis then President Suharto decided to raise fuel prices....
...Suharto and Mahathir Mohamad were feted, respectively, as the fathers of development in Indonesia and Malaysia; both held power for decades but left amid gathering protests and charges of cronyism....
...loans; bribes from companies; and skimming off foreign loans and raiding the public treasury,” said a 2007 World Bank Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative report, which featured kleptocrats such as Indonesia’s Suharto...
...A Christian born on the island of Sumatra, he saw combat as a young officer during the 1975 invasion of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor by the late Indonesian dictator Suharto....
...The proposed changes have triggered memories of the era of former dictator President Suharto, whose government exercised direct control over Bank Indonesia until Indonesia’s economy collapsed in 1998....
...They remind me now of the Indonesian youth whose rebellion against the corrupt dictatorship of Suharto ended his 30-year reign, when the cries of “reformasi” rang throughout the islands....
...For the three decades that followed under Sukarno’s successor Suharto, many SOEs served as cash cows for Suharto and his cronies....
...Most of the alleged human rights violations committed during the Suharto regime have never been fully investigated in Indonesia and many have not been substantiated....
...By 1998, Abad was living in Indonesia, where she witnessed the downfall of the Suharto regime....
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...Islamic movements were largely suppressed during the three decades of President Suharto's authoritarian secular New Order regime....
...He defeated Prabowo Subianto, a former special forces general and son-in-law of the ex-dictator Suharto....
...His businesses flourished further after General Suharto seized power in 1966 and gradually introduced a system of crony capitalism that favoured a handful of Chinese-Indonesian business families to carry...
...The fourth most populous country in the world abandoned dictatorship just two decades ago with the fall of Suharto at the height of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis....
...Even some younger voters who did not experience the Suharto era opposed Mr Prabowo as their leader....
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