THE BIOGRAPHY OF MOHAMMED SUHARTO

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Kaitkata: Tulisan terakhir

Mohammed suharto, second president of indonesia ( 1968 – 1998 ) , who oversaw the country’s unprecedented economic growth and emergence as a regional power, suharto has born on jun 8 1921 in kemusu, a village near the city of yogyakarta in central java. his parents were poor farmers in kemusu. suharto had unsettled chilhood. his parents marriage broke up before he was two years old, and then his parents remarried and by relative in other village and town around yogyakarta. suharto attended local javanese school , worked for a short time in a village bank, and joined the dutch colonial army in 1940.
By 1942 suharto had been promoted to surgeant. that year, japan invaded indonesia during world war 2. suharto joined a japanese wamil and received military training. after japan surrendered and indonesia declared it is independence in august 1945, in march 1949 troops under suharto’s command attacked the dutch in yogyakarta and recaptured the city. in 1957 he took command of the central javanese army, suharto became a brigadier in 1962 he headed a military operation to recover west irian.
Mid -1960’s both the military and the indonesian communist party ( pki ) as a rabbel which happen on september 30 1960’s attemped to scize control of the government in jakarta, indonesia capital, and in 1965 suharto to got success. this year also army units and moslem groups began to massacre communist. and then in 1968 he was elected became a president, and was relected to successive five-year.
The periode of government president suharto, indonesia prosperity experience. with internal political stability large in 1980’s suharto set out to expand indonesia’s role in internatinal politics, economic development was another major focus of suharto presidency. under his role indonesia experience, economic growth beginning in the early 1970’s. economic success result from substantial foreign investment and from economic diversification. suharto government developed road and irrigation system and implemented food production programs.
In march 1998 suharto was elected to a sevent term. his cabinet appointment mostly loyalists unlikely to challenge his authority. opposition to suharto’s role spread to many political and community leader who has previously supported him. on may 21 suharto bowed before this pressure and resigned. in 1999 president B. J. Habibi was elected became a president asreplacement of suharto and eventually B. J. Habibi success him as a president.

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