Suharto family tests Indonesia political comeback on strongman's legacy


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Apr 2014

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - It was Indonesia's most ubiquitous smile. Once dubbed the smiling general despite his iron rule of more than three decades, the image of former President Suharto now waves genially from the election campaign poster of one of his daughters.

It marks a tentative return to national politics of the family of the autocratic leader who was forced from office in 1998 as the world's fourth most populous nation descended into economic and social chaos.

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