Former President Soeharto Dies
Posted on January 27, 2008
Filed Under Blogger Indonesia, Fatih Syuhud, Indonesia, Indonesian Blogger, News, Personality
General (retired.) Soeharto, the second Indonesian president, who has been in a very critical condition for few weeks, has died today in the RSPP (Rumah Sakit Pustat Peramina) hospital Jakarta. Indonesian government has decided to have a national mourning for seven days starting from now. He will be buried tomorrow morning in Astana Giribangun of Central Java as per his request. Yet, the possibility that he’ll be buried in Jakarta is not ruled out, reports Detik.com.
As a human being he deserves our prayer and forgiveness; and to his big family our condolences. May God rest his soul in peace. As a statement and politician who ruled Indonesia for 32-long years, he might make mistakes. Let the law decides and take decision based on justice for all.
Update: He’s just been buried in Astana Girimangun Karangasem Jawa Tengah (Central Java) a few minutes ago (Monday, January 28, 2008). Almost all Indonesia tv channels relayed the burial proceeding live. The burial ritual finished at around 12.00 local time.
Jeremy Wagstaff writes an excellent “epitaph” for Soeharto here. He’s the kind of foreign journalist who we’d like to see a lot more. Via the Unspun
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mungkin ini memang yang terbaik untuk beliau karena usia yang sudah tua dan paenyakit yang terus menggerogotinya. semoga diterima disisiNYA
( maaf pakai bahasa Indonesia )
Pagi tadi ketika saya hendak berangkat ke kantor, ada ribuan orang disepanjang pinggir jalan yang akan dilewati rombongan mobil jenazah Soeharto. Well, selamat jalan Cing…
Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un… all of us will back to Allah. Soeharto has died, there are so much things we can learn from this.
This is something that I don’t understand about Indonesia. I still remember vividly during the economy crisis when everybody was so full of hatred of Suharto. And then 10 years later he’s forgiven (?).
When are we going to proceed the real justice?
Ikut Berduka Cita juga… eh titip mas…
Meskipun Pak Harto banyak salahnya, tapi juga banyak benarnya lho…
saya sangat setuju sekali dengan perkataan Amien Rais tadi pagi Di ANTV intinya “Bisa jadi kesalahan seorang di sebabkan oleh rakyatnya yang terlalu memuja dan tidak mau mengkritik, yang mengakibatkan sang raja jadi tamak”.
Anyway, kita lepaskan Pak Harto dengan iklas, biar lah Allah sendiri yang menghakimi karena Allah lah yang paling tau siapa Pak Harto sebenarnya
thanks..
wassalam
Artikel yang ditulis Wagstaff untuk mengenang Pak Harto sungguh menyentuh..
bagi sebagian besar orang Indonesia, memang tidak mungkin melupakan sama sekali jasa Pak Harto, paling tidak, beliau telah memberikan stabilitas dan keamanan dalam waktu cukup lama dari ancaman ekstrim kiri dan kanan (meski dengan harga mahal), yang tidak mungkin akan dapat terulang kembali di masa kini dan yad..
He was a great president! SO we should respect to him. But, his mistakes must be processed by Indonesian law soon.
For me he’s like two sides of a blade, in one hand he was honoured for building indonesian economy,in other side he did many criminal act, and practice corruption in a huge number. But personally for me, i do forgive him for all his sin, coz it would be waste of time hating people who already rest forever, isn’t it?
Suharto is legend…both in good and evil ways.
Akan lebih baik kalao status hukum suharto jelas. Sebenarnya dia berkeinginan untuk di proses secara hukum. TETAPI, orang2 jahat (para koruptor sejati) gak rela kalo kedok mereka terbongkar. Sehingga mereka mecari seribu cara agar suharto tidak di sidangkan. CMIIW