Suharto[b][c] (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician, who served as the second and longest serving President of Indonesia. Suharto's presidency and legacy is highly divisive.

Jan 23, 2025 · Suharto (born June 8, 1921, Kemusu Argamulja, Java, Dutch East Indies [now Indonesia]—died Jan. 27, 2008, Jakarta, Indon.) was an army officer and political leader who was president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998.

Suharto (June 8, 1921 - January 27, 2008 [1]) was an Indonesian military general, political leader, and second President of Indonesia. He is the longest serving President of Indonesia (from 1967 to 1998).

Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military leader, and from 1967 to 1998 the second President of Indonesia. After briefly working as a bank clerk, Suharto joined the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in 1940.

Suharto resigned as President of Indonesia on 21 May 1998 following the collapse of support for his 32-year long presidency. Vice President B. J. Habibie took over the presidency. Suharto's grip on power weakened following severe economic and …

Suharto, (born June 8, 1921, Kemusu Argamulja, Java, Dutch East Indies), Second president of Indonesia (1967–98). Suharto initially served in the Dutch colonial army, but after the Japanese conquest (1942) he joined a Japanese-sponsored defense corps.

Jan 27, 2007 · 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.

Jan 28, 2008 · The former president of Indonesia, Suharto, passed away after several weeks in critical condition following multiple organ failure.

Jan 27, 2008 · Former Indonesian President Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday.

Official portrait of Suharto and First Lady Siti Hartinah. Suharto was born on 8 June 1921 during the Dutch East Indies era, in a plaited bamboo walled house in the hamlet of Kemusuk, a part of the larger village of Godean.The village is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Yogyakarta, the cultural heartland of the Javanese. [3] Born to ethnic Javanese parents of peasant class, he was the …