Culture & Society

HISTORY OF INDONESIA Sukarno makes way for Suharto’s “New Order”*

By Jeffry Babb / August 29, 2015

Some time ago, shortly after the death of former ALP prime minister Gough Whitlam, I saw a young man with a tee shirt emblazoned with “What would Gough do?” The grand orator at work: Sukarno addresses a crowd at the time of the Konfrontasi. He was dressed in ragged clothes and his hair was in dreadlocks. I assumed he would not say, as would most people who had lived through the chaos of the Whitlam years, “mess it up like he did everything else he touched”. He w…

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