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Article: Suharto: a Political Biography.
- Article from:
- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
- Author:
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By R.E. Elson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Xxii + 389 pp. Index, bibliography. 21.29 [pounds sterling].
The figure of Suharto looms like no other Indonesia's history in the last third of the twentieth century. President of his country from 1967 to 1998, Suharto presided over the biooding ending of Sukarno's Guided Democracy, over continuing repression and restriction, including the invasion and annexation of East Timor in 1975-76, and over a period of sustained economic growth which turned Indonesia from one of the poorest countries in the world to an apparently shining success story of Third World modernisation. Yet in 1997-98 Suharto's ...