As Indonesia's elections near, disillusioned voters look to the past

Still in their hearts: A vendor selling a T-shirt with a portrait of Suharto in Yogyakarta. - AFP

KEMUSUK: Painted on the back of trucks and emblazoned across T-shirts, the smiling face of former Indonesian dictator Suharto has become a common sight across Java 16 years after his downfall.

“How are you bro? Still better in my time, no?!” runs a phrase commonly printed alongside the late army general, toppled following more than three decades in power when the Asian financial crisis tore into Indonesia.