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Suharto

1921 - 2008

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Suharto (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military general, politician and dictator who served as the country's second and longest-serving president from 1967 to 1998. Rising to prominence amid political turmoil and anti-communist purges in the mid-1960s, Suharto gradually sidelined founding president Sukarno and formally assumed the presidency after forcing him to resign. His three-decade rule, characterised as authoritarian and kleptocratic, was marked by widespread corruption, political repression, and human rights abuses. Suharto's regime ultimately collapsed in 1998 amid mass protests, violent unrest, and the fallout of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, leading to his resignation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Suharto is the 578th most popular politician (down from 556th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Indonesia and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Politician.

Suharto is most famous for being the president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. He was the first president of Indonesia to be democratically elected.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Suharto ranks 578 out of 19,576. Before him are Şehzade Bayezid, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Shinzō Abe, Mary of Burgundy, Friedrich Merz, and Władysław II Jagiełło. After him are Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Morsi, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Atahualpa, Scipio Africanus, and Patrice Lumumba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Suharto ranks 8. Before him are John Glenn, Alexander Dubček, Charles Bronson, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Michael I of Romania, and Kocheril R. Narayanan. After him are Andrei Sakharov, Astor Piazzolla, Stanisław Lem, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Yves Montand, and Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 2008, Suharto ranks 4. Before him are Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Paul Newman, and Yves Saint Laurent. After him are Bobby Fischer, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Edmund Hillary, Charlton Heston, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel P. Huntington, Willis Lamb, and Daniel Carleton Gajdusek.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Suharto ranks 2 out of 158. Before him are Sukarno (1901). After him are Willem Einthoven (1860), Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Joko Widodo (1961), B. J. Habibie (1936), Prabowo Subianto (1951), Anthony Fokker (1890), Laura Gemser (1950), and Mohammad Hatta (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In Indonesia

Among politicians born in Indonesia, Suharto ranks 2. Before him are Sukarno (1901). After him are Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Joko Widodo (1961), B. J. Habibie (1936), Prabowo Subianto (1951), Mohammad Hatta (1902), Gajah Mada (1290), Diponegoro (1785), and Adam Malik (1917).

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