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The Future President’s New Clothes

If you think of an authoritarian despot, you are probably picturing some decisive, charismatic and ruthless leader. Someone who addresses the masses in a commanding, booming voice, basking in the glow of a cult of personality.

Today’s protagonist does not fill that description, not at all.

He remained a background character, a fence-sitter, for much of his life.

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History Today, 54 years ago, 27 March , Suharto was officially inaugurated as President of Indonesia to replace Soekarno who had stepped.

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And even when he rose to power, he never projected a menacing aura. In fact, he wished to be remembered as ‘The Smiling General’.

But don’t let that unassuming smile fool you.

Mr. Suharto was a cunning and manipulative ruler, capable of swift, violent action when times called for it.

This is the story of how Suharto rose to power in Indonesia, during one of the worst massacres of the 20th Century – and how he maintained power, while bleeding the country dry.

Suharto was born on the 8th of June, 1921 in Kemusu Argamulja, near Yogyakarta.

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