International outcry grows over Soeharto national hero proposal – Politics

growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Soeharto as a national hero, with a coalition of global civic groups warning the plan could whitewash decades of human rights abuses and corruption by the former leader. Soeharto, who was also the former father-in-law of President Prabowo Subianto,… … Read more