Soeharto
Soeharto is known as Indonesian President who had the
longest leadership period 32 years. He is called as the father of development.
He was the second president of Indonesia who was successful in developing
agricultural sector of Indonesia. Soeharto was born in Kemusuk, Yogyakarta, on
June 8, 1921. His parents were Sukirah and Kertosudiro. When he was eight years
old, Soeharto start going to school, but he often move form one school to
another school because his family also move from the village.
In 1945, Soeharto officially became the member of TNI.
After that, in 1947, Soeharto married with Siti Hartinah or she was famous by
Tien. From the marriage, Soeharto had six children. They are Siti Hardiyanti
Hastuti, Sigit Harjojudanto, Bambang Trihatmodjo, Siti Hediati Herijadi, Hutomo
Mandala Putra and Siti Hutami Endang Adiningsih.
Many versions of stories said that the role of
Soeharto when Indonesia took back Yogyakarta from the Netherlands in general
attack 1 Maret can’t be separated. The purpose of general attack 1 Maret was to
show the existence of TNI in defending Indonesia to international world. He
built his carrier in military until he became the Major General.
Through the extraordinary meeting of the parliament,
Soeharto was pointed as the second president of Indonesia, replacing President
Soekarno. During his leadership as president, Soeharto change many political
policies. One of them was Indonesia came back to be the member of United
Nations.
In his presidency, Soeharto intimidate the communist
party and punish everyone who was relate to the communist party. The programs
of Soeharto were directed to save the stability and rehabilitation of
Indonesia’s economy condition. Here, Soeharto controlling the inflation so that
the price of local products didn’t rise extremely. He also repair the
facilities. The basic purpose of these policies was maintaining the planning
economy system which could guarantee the democracy of economy to the justice
and wealthy society as it was mention in Pancasila. Due to his success in
establishing political stability which brought economy stability, he is called
as the Father of Development. The other achievement of Soeharto was the UN
Population Award which was the highest award from UN because Soeharto was
successful in holding KB program.
Soeharto was a president who was full of controversy.
Some people supporting him as the Father of Development, but some of them show
disrespect because of the tragedy in 1998 which many people become the victims
of the crisis. In 1998, Soeharto faced dark era because many university
students with the society did big demonstration as result of their
unsatisfactory feelings toward Soeharto’s presidency, in which the stability of
the economy started to fall down. Indonesia faced crisis for the recent 6
months at that time. On May 21, 2015, Soeharto declared that he stepped back
for good as the president of Indonesia. An then BJ Habibie continue his
presidency for a year. After that, Abdurrahman Wahid was elect as the fourth
president in 1999.
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