Soeharto has been hospitalized in RSPP hospital for about 24 days for his series ilnesses ; kidney, lungs, and heart. And after punished today by the team doctors that all the organs have completelly malfunction, Soeharto release his final breath at 13.10 in 87 years of age.
Indonesia government stated mourning moment for Soeharto's death for 7 days. Soeharto will be buried in Giribangun, Solo.
The death of one of the most corrupt and brutal rulers of the 20th century is unlikely to spark civil unrest in the country of 230 million, analysts in
Jakarta said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will preside over ceremonies mourning the death, insisting in recent interviews that Soeharto's mistakes would not stop the nation from thanking him for his achievements.
But 10 years after being driven from power in a pro-democracy uprising, Soeharto remained a divisive and influential figure in Indonesia where people are sharply divided over his political legacy and where he will be remembered as much by his corruption and human rights abuses as his achievements.
The global corruption agency Transparency International estimated in 2004 that Soeharto had stolen between US$15 billion to US$35 billion in state assets while in power.
His six children, other family members and cronies enriched themselves
through hundreds of businesses that came to dominate Indonesia's economy in the 1980s and 1990s.
But Soeharto, who was born into a poor farming family in Java in 1921, is credited with holding the vast Indonesian archipelago together and
fostering economic development that lifted millions of people from poverty.
(from news-to-you.blogspot.com)
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