Archive for Februari 5th, 2008
Opinion: PRO-CON: Can Indonesia move beyond Suharto’s legacy? NO
KANSAS CITY STAR (USA)
http://www.kansascity.com/273/story/464900.html
Posted on Mon, Jan. 28, 2008 10:15 PM
The bloody trail that Suharto blazed after he seized power in 1965 shocks the conscience. Perhaps 100,000 people died in West Papua under Indonesian rule following its fraudulent 1969 annexation of the territory, according to Yale’s Genocide Documentation Project. Between 100,000 and 180,000 died in [...]
Stop supporting those Javanese rulers now
Dear All,
Let us not forget that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyno is also a Javanese and those
people from Java always support each other in spite of the trouble they have caused in the past or will cause in the future.
Funny enough they have some good support from the world but not from other regions in Indonesia.
It [...]
A career soldier who commanded a country: Suharto (8 June 1921- 27 January 2008)
Inside Indonesia
No. 91: Jan-Mar 2008
By John Roosa
Image Taciturn, reserved, reclusive, emotionless, Suharto ruled Indonesia for 32 years as a mystery man, a dictator who presented himself as a faceless, replaceable figure in an apolitical administration. His speeches were dull, forgettable affairs filled with mind-numbing bureaucratese, worn clichés, and pious homilies. There is not a single [...]
