Suharto

Individuals can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. In these video clips, people enthusiastically recount how they used to kill people savagely and deliver detailed descriptions of their gruesome killing methods. One elder man even brags about his atrocious deed that he used to drink the blood of the communists just to keep his sanity intact. In the article, the survivor, Tumiso, tells the reporter that his toenails were ripped out and his mangled toes were jammed under a table leg. The perpetrators of the massacre hit his nose with an iron bar until it was deformed. Tumiso got abnormal vision because people hit him with whatever they found on the ground. Furthermore, the article reveals that children schooled during the Suharto regime were fed a diet of communism fear and loathing. Most were exposed to annual screenings of the bloody government-sponsored propaganda film. It proves the footage in the documentary that a teacher is telling elementary school students fabricated history of the anti-communist purge. Moreover, the article explains the consequences of the Indonesian genocide of…

Like many countries around the world, Indonesia has undergone a slough of different leaders, regimes, and systems of government throughout its seventy-year history. The most recent transition of government took place in October 2014, when President Joko Widodo was sworn in after winning a July election with just over 53% of the total vote. This election marked the first time that Indonesia’s leader did not emerge from the country’s elite class or the military and continued the recent and of…

Living in the 21th century, things have definitely changed since the millennials and the technology era comes in place. Easy access to information, communication, entertainment, and even ‘easy ways’ to get rich are so all over the place. Our era has become an era where everything needs to either be fast or easy. Let’s just say Starbucks. Back in the days, we used to brew and make our own coffee, but not anymore. Now, everyone goes to Starbucks in the morning to get their morning coffee.…

Decree of 1963, which had appointed Sukarno as President-for-Life, and in Decree No. 11, it called for a general election in July 1968 (Pauker 1967a: 147-148). Until then, Suharto had the authority to act as the de facto leader of the republic, and was instructed by the MPRS to immediately reshuffle Sukarno’s cabinet with economic and political stability as the main purpose. This cabinet was supervised by a presidium of five chief ministers led by Suharto as Chairman of the Presidium and Chief…

How Powerful People are Untruthful History has witnessed many incidents where people who hold a type of power in the world become untruthful or do untruthful things. The list could recede on and on about how these untruthful acts were completed but they all have one common factor; power. Power seems to cause chaos in some minds and can provoke the most sinister things. Powerful people such as Mohammad Suharto a President of Indonesia, Bob Coy a former Pastor, and Arthur Dimmesdale the minister…

Anyone who was deemed a threat to the New Order and Suharto’s power was immediately put under constant watch by the government; many of these targets were the Chinese living in Indonesia. The Chinese who were living abroad in Indonesia were considerably wealthier than Indonesian citizens, causing disparities between the two groups and were made an easier target to discriminate towards. This fact coupled with a coup from the Communist Party of Indonesia that killed six members of Suharto’s…

between Indonesia's Suharto and Australia's Whitlam leading up to the invasion of East Timor. Later, we come to find out that the US also had a close hand in the violent invasion by giving approval and supplying weapons to Suharto’s military. I chose to write about the devastating event of East Timor because it really helped me grasp the true nature and history of genocide. It opened my eyes to some of the ways our world was run throughout history and what is still taking place today, right…

Having experienced with the economic downfall in Sukarno’s administration, Suharto focussed on the economic stability while starting his administration in 1967. He applied what have been regarded as balanced budget, relying on foreign funds to balance the budget, and preventing the government from printing money or issuing debt securities to finance its deficits. Suharto also opened the capital account so that private sectors had access to foreign funds. Besides balanced budget, Suharto…

Almost immediately after, Suharto regime sought to hide the history of what happened. The killers were never brought to justice nor given reason to believe that they had done anything wrong. A filmmaker named Josh Oppenheimer released a documentary called The Act of Killing (2012) which the filmmaker was able to convince these killers to reenact the murders to reconnect the history that almost vanished. In the documentary, it was mentioned that anyone who opposed the military dictatorship could…

The Indonesian Genocide 1965-1966 was an anti-communist attack, tat lead to the overthrown president Kusno Sokarno being replaced by Suharto who was an army general. Killings followed a coup that took place on October 1, 1965, in Jakarta. This coup killed six army generals, and it formed a revolutionary council, seizing power from Sukarno. General Suharto was elected as President, filling in for Sukarno. Suharto led the genocide that killed about 1 million people, and left 100,000 people…