Former Indonesian President Suharto, the U.S. Cold War ally who led one of the 20th century's harshest and most corrupt dictatorships over 32 years that saw up to a million political opponents ...

The Indonesian government plans to revise the country’s official historical narrative by launching a new 10-volume series of ...

The Indonesian government's plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 ...

Former Indonesian dictator Suharto, a U.S. Cold War ally whose military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing opponents, was buried Monday at a state funeral with full military honors ...

Suharto rose to power by crushing an alleged communist uprising in 1965 after his political rivals were mysteriously eliminated. His iron-fist rule went unchallenged until widespread protests in ...

Suharto's maxim had been: don't be surprised, don't be overwhelmed, and don't overestimate your own position. But he was surprised and overwhelmed by events precisely because he overestimated his ...

Suharto is charged with skimming off $583 million in state money to bankroll the business empires of his family and cronies. He has denied any wrongdoing. Juwono Sudarsono, ...

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jakarta, Indonesia, that former President Suharto is set to go on trial on charges of corruption. The 79-year-old Suharto is accused of amassing a fortune, along ...

Indonesia - Suharto NPR's Michael Sullivan reports that the trial of former Indonesian President Suharto opened today in Jakarta, but Suharto failed to appear. A team of 24 doctors attending the ...

Suharto, 79, has been under house arrest for the past two months and has suffered two strokes; his attorneys say he is unfit to stand trial or be questioned by prosecutors.

Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than three decades after grabbing power in the wake of a 1965-6 massacre ...