{"id":75101,"date":"2025-11-10T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/10\/indonesia-declares-president-suharto-national-hero"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:56:32","slug":"fury-as-indonesia-declares-late-authoritarian-ruler-suharto-a-national-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75101","title":{"rendered":"Fury as Indonesia declares late authoritarian ruler Suharto a national hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader presided over period marked by corruption, nepotism, censorship and claims of rights abuses<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world\u2019s third-largest democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The award has deepened fears about attempts to whitewash Suharto\u2019s rise and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/gallery\/2008\/jan\/11\/indonesia\">decades-long rule<\/a>, a period marked by rampant corruption, censorship and accusations of mass human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/10\/indonesia-declares-president-suharto-national-hero\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former leader presided over period marked by corruption, nepotism, censorship and claims of rights abusesIndonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revision&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,3386,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-prabowo-subianto","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75105,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75101\/revisions\/75105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}