Suharto's mate: how a little-known Australian became a secret go-between for Indonesia's leader and the West scmp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scmp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
That Prabowo, who is responsible for numerous atrocities, could stand in Wednesday’s election and is not behind bars, is a graphic exposure of the “democracy” established after the end of the Suharto dictatorship.
Suharto army officer and political leader who was president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. His three decades of uninterrupted rule gave Indonesia much-needed political stability and sustained economic growth, but his authoritarian regime finally fell victim to an economic downturn and its own