Suharto

Suharto, also spelled Soeharto (June 8, 1921 – January 27, 2008) was an Indonesian military leader, and the second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.[1]

A veteran of the war for independence (1945-49) against the Dutch, he became army chief of staff in 1965. He opposed the pro-Chinese policies of President Sukarno and, while still relatively unknown, crushed a Communist coup in 1965 and then moved to replace Sukarno. Suharto assumed key civilian cabinet offices in 1966, became acting president in 1967, and assumed the office of supreme commander of the army and was elected president in 1968. He was reelected every five years from 1973 to 1998. [2]
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Sukarno

Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970), Indonesian engineering graduate from Bandung Technical College[1] who, during the 1930s, led the nationalist movement against the Dutch authorities ruling the Netherlands East Indies (NEI). He was imprisoned and exiled but returned to chair a committee of four (Empat Serangkai, or Four-Leaf Clover) which, under Japanese occupation, ran an association of most of the island’s nationalist parties. He worked with the occupiers (i.e. the Japanese) to gain his country’s independence, which was eventually promised in September 1944.
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