HISTORY OF INDONESIA Suharto’s “New Order” a period of stability*

Major-General Suharto had been saved from assassination by sheer chance. Suharto at the height of his power. His three-year-old son Tommy was at the Jakarta Army Hospital being treated for a scalding accident. But for that, Suharto would have almost certainly ended up in the Crocodile Hole with the six high-ranking victims of the October 1, 1965, massacre. Suharto, commanding the strategic reserve, then rallied the troops loyal to the army hierarchy. The massacre ushered in blood­…

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