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Suharto's efforts to regain the national honor culminated in an attack on Dutch forces at Yogyakarta on March 1, 1949. Cronyism 101.Slate.com. But this preferential treatment was not confined to his critics only.

The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis had dire consequences for the Indonesian economy and society, and Suharto's regime. A Report to the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation of Timor-LesteBenetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Megawati, increasingly critical of Suharto's regime, was seen as a real threat by the government due to the status of her father, the late Soekarno.

The rapid pace of this development had vastly increased their population density. "Criminal matters became a secondary problem," Suharto remarked, "what was most important were matters of a political kind").^[8]

Suharto shifted from police work toward the Japanese-sponsored militia, the Peta (Defenders of the Fatherland) in which Indonesians served as officers.

McDonald says that Tien flair for business, in which it "was accepted that in hard times a wife might indulge in genteel commerce to augment the family budget," a "trait carried to her children and grandchildren," became "the Achilles heel of Soeharto's presidency."^[1]

Post-Independence military career

During the following years he served in the Indonesian National Army, stationed primarily on Java.

Suharto and his cabinets failed to reinvest into the development of state infrastructure and into a local manufacturing sector. It is thought that as many as 1.5m were imprisoned at one stage or another.^[35] As a result of the purge, one of Sukarno's three pillars of support, the Indonesian Communist Party, had been effectively eliminated by the other two, the military and political Islam.

The effects were exacerbated by widespread corruption. Retrieved September 7, 2008.