TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsText your say: Public objects to Soeharto's hero nomination
Your comments on the governmentâs plan to nominate late former presidents Soeharto and Abdurrahman âGus Durâ Wahid for the national hero award in 2016:SMSTo be frank, I really donât know the criteria used for the nomination of national heroes
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Y
our comments on the government's plan to nominate late former presidents Soeharto and Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid for the national hero award in 2016:
SMS
To be frank, I really don't know the criteria used for the nomination of national heroes. The government should nominate both or neither of them.
Eduard Iseli
The nomination of Soeharto as a national hero is equal to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praying at the Yasukuni Shrine.
Idah
Don't mention late former president Abdurrahman 'Gus Dur' Wahid and late former president Soeharto in one breath! They are from entirely different species.
Gus Dur is okay, but Soeharto? Let him first accept accountability for the million dead Indonesians that he used as stepping stones to his 'success'. And the trillions of rupiah that he and his cronies embezzled from this nation during his three-decade authoritarian rule.
Hadi
It's not difficult to define the kind of people who would call Soeharto a hero: (1) they conveniently forget the past, for their own best interests; (2) they hope to revive the Soeharto era, which according to them was the best; (3) they hope to receive generous rewards in the form of high positions and financial largesse from his family, which is still very affluent; (4) being dyed-in-the wool sycophants and bootlickers, they lack integrity and morals, only desiring to amass the largest amount of fame and fortune while they are still alive.
Firepooch
I agree. Former president BJ Habibie should also be recognized, I think.
Simba1991
