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Source/Further reading:
General biographies:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Suharto
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/world/asia/28suharto.html
John Roosa's Obituary of Suharto: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40376448
Indonesian Independence:
http://www.historytoday.com/archive/independence-indonesia
https://www.eur.nl/sites/corporate/files/Scagliola_Silences_and_Myths2007_manuscript.pdf
Anti-communist Purges:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/john-roosa-buried-histories-the-anticommunist-massacres-of-1965-1966-in-indonesia-u-wisconsin-press-2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/the-indonesia-documents-and-the-us-agenda/543534/
https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/indonesian-killings-1965-1966.html
New Order:
https://www.indonesia-investments.com/culture/politics/suharto-new-order/item180?
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/097492847903500402?journalCode=iqqa
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2613527
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/33621/459541.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Malari riots:
https://voi.id/en/amp/1774/the-malari-incident-of-1974-becomes-the-war-of-two-generals
East Timor: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-14952883.amp
Reformation Era: https://www.indonesia-investments.com/culture/politics/reformation/item181
Family:
https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/the-soeharto-family-where-are-they-now/
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@chocolatecookie8571 Says:
I visited Suharto's graveyard temple in 2022 where he, his wife and his whole family lies burried. It's a popular place where Indonesians travel to in tour busses to pay him and his family respect and pray for them in group settings (yasinan).
@TwentyNinerR Says:
Small update: one of Suharto's former son-in-law is now the President-elect of Indonesia, having just won the election by a fair margin.
At the time this comment is written, an election dispute resolution trial is currently ongoing at Indonesia's Constitutional Court. The court shall deliver its verdict at around next week.
@vanillaalor416 Says:
He is the main culprit of Indonesia's misfortune now: lowest IQ, lowest GDP per capita, no accolades.
@user-dd9ek8sj5m Says:
The role of the CIA in 1965 is understated. It’s known that the CIA was bombing Indonesia long before Suharto took office. CIA aviator Alan Pope was shot down after bombing a village in Ambon in 1958. This was one of numerous attacks on Indonesia by the US.
In 1965 the CIA gave the Indonesian military a list of 5,000 names to assassinated in return for US support. The CIA was so successful in this operation that it became the modus operandi for subsequent US coups. Please refer to the book ‘The Jakarta Method’ by Vincent Bevins.
@yohanayoku6741 Says:
The only Indonesian president who I don’t really like
@jumawardi5287 Says:
Soeharto hanya di cintai oleh para koruptor saja,dan bunga hutang soeharto masih di bayar sampai sekarang kalian yang bilang enak jaman ku di jaman soeharto silahkan bayar bunga hutang nya soeharto
@bangrojai4868 Says:
12:20. This is the important thing. I will tell you a story. Nyoto was the husband of Tien Soeharto cousin. Even Soeharto couldnt save his closest family. The purge was chaotic. Someone in power hate you, and no matter how clean you are, your name will be on the death list, and it is game over for you. Nyoto, was high rank PKI until 1963. He was kicked by Aidit from PKI because he was not Maoist communist. Nyoto, was hated by one of Soeharto general, Soemitro. So, Soemitro excuted him. He didnt need Soeharto permission. Same case, happened all over Indonesia. It was a total chaos. You cant blame Soeharto when he, himself, failed to save his closest family.
@bangrojai4868 Says:
CIA said, "Our Indonesia Ally" during cold war in 1965. Anyone can name, who are they, "Our Indonesian Ally"?
@suptandarsaefulakbar1032 Says:
Of course Soeharto knew about the communist coup and also his commander in chief Soekarno knew about it, the communist move not against Soekarno but targeting Indonesian military establishment. If the communist succeed their revolution than Soekarno will be the Indonesian version of Mao Ze Dong. Altough Soekarno himself is not a communist, he sympatize and protect the communist and the communist love and idolize him. Soeharto in the other hand is the ultimate opportunist, he simply wait who's got the upper hand in the power struggle. And when the public react against the PKI movement Soeharto make his move, forcing Soekarno to give him power to "restore law & order". First thing Soeharto did is to disolve the communist party, arrested their leaders and systematically eradicated them by imprisonment and large sum just killing them. The eradication of communism in Indonesia is so succesfull, The US and CIA made it as their guideline to deal with communist movement during cold war. 😂
@user-dq6pm6sg8z Says:
17:12 "The equivalent of😊😊 NATO for the region " ASEAN is not a military Organization... 18:29
@user-rl3iv2jk9q Says:
I vote for Suharto .
@remnant.watchman Says:
Thanks
@KoyokCabe Says:
The system undet Suharto rule for 32 years left so crippled, corrupt, mentally ill, bureucrats that had lived from blood, sweat and tears of common Indonesian... We are talking about 3.5-5 millions so corrupt bureaucrats from all sides of governance ....
@JiTiAr35 Says:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the most corrupt human in human history.
SUHARTO
Yes, with U. Not OE as in SOEHARTO.
Because the guy couldn't speak Dutch.
@ganevo4788 Says:
If you tell us about Indonesian 4th president, Abdurrahman Wahid i think it will be great.
@HilmanRizaldi Says:
Ada Indonesia coy
@bu_is Says:
suharto, the stupidest dictator in se-asia. attended education only to drop out at year 5; succeeded in dismantling indo's own soviet supplied modern, unpaid weaponry with old western-supplied ex korean war and ww-II; the father of national corruption ; the father of slash-and-divide national unity: commoners are taught to be loyal not to motherland but to the then ruling golkar + in-military: army was so called the good boys and then got new defense articles and the navy and airforce were so called the stepchildren got mostly either old second hand or new ones in speck down state). java and Jakarta-centric development orientation; father of national family planning (successful baby farming from population 104 million (1966) to 210 people (1998) or an increase of 49%)
@somebodyontheinternet7743 Says:
Fascist dictator that came from a color revolution the west incited. That's what he is
@toddarmstrong1909 Says:
Thank you for the video. I hope you do a video on Sukarno.
@aliiscott1346 Says:
the first of many CIA coups. The Jakarta method was taken to all those countries in South america, then moved onto the middle east including hiring any thugs willing, eg Al Qaeda. No-one needs to know, right?
@michaelcockerel8366 Says:
A great read to go along with this video is The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins, it goes into more detail about the CIA involvement
@trevorsmith7753 Says:
'Bung' (brother) Soekarno died in 1970, aged 69.
@trevorsmith7753 Says:
In 1964 he even pilfered Boy Scout funds in collaboration with ethnic-Chinese business associate Lim Siew Leong.
@svonkarmo433 Says:
Cut the crap. What is so difficult to say that he was the ÇÏÅ&MI6 darling to plunder the oil and the gold?
@robertbaldwin5771 Says:
Absolute rubbish - bleeding the country dry. He built a massive middle class, provided security and took Indonesia into the modern era.
@travellerswithoutborders6436 Says:
Simon pls come back on Visual politik 😒
@tidawilson Says:
Correction: Fretilin, not Tefilin.
The Fretilins spearheaded the movement against (initially) the Portuguese and then the Indonesian state/army until 1998, resulting in independence through referendum in 2002.
@shelleyt4113 Says:
Thank you for this video. My grandfather was murdered and my family never talks about it. This was very enlightening. Thanks
@briandoss9232 Says:
Man Indonesias history is almost as bloody as its neighbors...
@KM-qd4kf Says:
You understated the influence of the US. The CIA covert-action program in Indonesia was exposed after contract pilot Allen Pope was shot down. The CIA also gave Suharto’s acolytes a hit list of 5,000 people to be murdered. This is central to understanding the coup. The book ‘The Jakarta method’ is the seminal work on Suharto’s coup & governments that were subsequently overthrown by the US via the CIA.
To bring the cruelty home to people today the well known Seminyak beach, Bali where deckchairs & bars abound was the scene of a mass cremation of victims of this coup. People sifted through the ashes to find remains of family members to give them the proper Hindu send off to a new life as is the custom. This mass cremation is the antithesis of the Hindu prescribed manner.
@batman-ym2tz Says:
Many Chinese & Communist hates Suharto here, it's so funny.
Suharto loves poor/little indigenous people, and Rich Chinese birocrat hate him. now day we see the chinese birocrat and communist mastered indonesian goverment and media.
As a farmer in small island of indonesia, I have a very good time in Suharto Period and of course this period is worst for us as indigenous.
please do more research, Suharto is full of kind, generous and have a gentle heart. he also hard spiritual practitioner.
I Love presiden Suharto & B.J Habibi deep from my heart
@user-wg9hc5pf2r Says:
Suharto is a butcher!!!!!
@ariefachmadi5027 Says:
2:45 who tf is achmed sukarno? the proclamator name is Koesno Sosrodihardjo or Soekarno, there is no achmed lmao
@AbangKJ Says:
there's a common saying in Indonesia that says "New Order gave 1 Suharto, But Reformation gives 1000 Suharto"
@xuehuapiaopiao9440 Says:
What do you mean "The Rise"? It's the collapse, why? Corruption, seperatists, dictatorship resulting to almost a million or maybe a million people were missing, and yes, development of Java.
@bigmacstack3468 Says:
Wish he would do an episode for Gough Whitlam
@bieberjohnthor Says:
Crazy how much better life was back in the Soeharto days if only he is not corrupt dictator.
@tthkkkkk Says:
Based Suharto.
@momokui Says:
This guy can't even pronoun "Yogyakarta" right, yet he dare to tell story about Indonesia! The "fence-sitting" part sounds exactly like western propaganda, which has been told since. Actually the CIA was supporting Suharto during the coup and blaming PKI for everything. Find in the Youtube "The Chilling Story of the CIA-Sponsored ‘Jakarta Method’"
@nicholassiracuse9381 Says:
great video, thanks
@psabdul Says:
I think it needs to be said, that Suharto can't accomplish a lot of these atrocities (65-66, east timor, etc) without support from US. Try checking Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
@BagusWidyanto1978HappyIn1997 Says:
Sukarno and Moh. Hatta weren't military officers
@BagusWidyanto1978HappyIn1997 Says:
Not all Indonesians have single name. Not even his contemporary.
We do have surname and even family name
@josefwissarionowitschstali1225 Says:
Man, what a whimp. Didn't even finish his job, that loser.
@achmaddaru9456 Says:
Made by the CIA and kicked out by the CIA, General Soeharto
@dindjarin2628 Says:
"New Order" reminds me of Palpatine
@slumbermoon Says:
Fretilin, not Tefilin. Ansor, not Anso
@slumbermoon Says:
Sukarno allegedly decreed the Supersemar under duress. He had suffered a stroke and couldn’t refuse Suharto urging him to sign the Supersemar.
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