HAJI Mohammed Suharto was the second and longest-serving president of the Republic of Indonesia.
He was born in 1921 in the impoverished village of Kemusuk near Yogyakarta in Central Java. Differing accounts of his childhood add to a sense of mystique in his early years.
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