Strong opposition: Indonesian students taking part in an anti-Suharto demonstration in Jakarta in this file photo. A growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name the late president as a national hero. — AFP
A growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Suharto (pic, left) as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning the plan could whitewash decades of human rights abuses and corruption by the former leader.
Suharto, who was also the former father-in-law of President Prabowo Subianto, has been included on the list of nominees for this year’s national heroes that is still under the scrutiny of the Social Affairs Ministry’s Central Research and Assessment Team for Title (TP2GP).
