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The parliament speaker's on-air call for resignation toppled Suharto
A loyal parliament speaker publicly demanded Suharto’s resignation on live radio - but who really pulled the strings behind his fall?
The parliament speaker's on-air call for resignation toppled Suharto
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events in late May 1998 that led to the abrupt end of Suharto’s thirty-two-year rule. We trace the public break by a longtime loyalist, the economic collapse, mass student protests and the violent days that followed to ask: who actually pulled the strings?
Person: Suharto
Person: Harmoko
Date: May 18-21, 1998
Event: Trisakti shootings and subsequent…
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