By bno - Surabaya Office An Indonesian minister’s denial of the mass rapes that occurred during the May 1998 riots has ...

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 ...

A growing wave of international condemnation has poured in over the renewed effort to name late president Suharto ( pic, left ...

Indonesia 's culture minister Fadli Zon has come under fire for denying the mass rape of ethnic Chinese women during riots ...

There are concerns that it is an attempt to downplay politically sensitive episodes in the nation’s past. Read more at ...

SYDNEY, July 26 -- Indonesia's attorney general announced corruption charges against former president Suharto today, accusing him of skimming $157 million from seven charitable foundations he ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN)-- Responsible for shaping modern Indonesia, Haji Muhammad Suharto was known as the "smiling general," but his legacy as one of the great Cold War era strongmen was built ...

Culture Minister Fadli Zon’s remarks that the 1998 mass rapes were “all hearsay” have incited fresh concerns over the ...

Suharto died in 2008. Human rights activists quickly denounced the decision, with Amnesty Indonesia calling it a "bad precedent". "It opens the way for the whitewashing of the sins of past rulers ...

Suharto ruled Indonesia for more than three decades, before being ousted on a wave of popular discontent in 1998. Under his presidency, investment from the West was encouraged and Indonesia enjoyed ...

said he believes the government will use the same playbook as Suharto, who released a six-volume book series in 1975 titled "The National History of Indonesia" that he said glorified the military ...