Suharto Museum celebrates dictator's life, omitting dark chapters
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Kemusuk, Indonesia
INDONESIA'S former dictator looms in bronze over the entrance to the small museum set amid the palm trees and emerald rice fields of central Java. Depicted in a military uniform and peaked officer's cap, he radiates calm authority over the village of his birth.
To many, the New Order government that Suharto led from 1967-1998 is a byword for corruption and repression on a grand scale, including a brutal campaign of anti-communist purges that historians describe as one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
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