{"id":75194,"date":"2025-11-17T10:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/indifferent-nostalgic-or-plain-pragmatic-indonesia-gen-zs-react-to-strongman-suhartos-national-hero-status"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:32:02","slug":"indifferent-nostalgic-or-plain-pragmatic-indonesia-gen-zs-react-to-strongman-suhartos-national-hero-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75194","title":{"rendered":"Indifferent, nostalgic or plain pragmatic: Indonesia Gen Zs react to strongman Suharto\u2019s national hero status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision seen by some as \u2018blatant whitewashing\u2019 but many Gen Z have responded with indifference and even nostalgia<\/p>\n<p>To some Indonesians he is the antithesis of a hero \u2013 a former dictator accused of human rights abuses who once held the disreputable title of one of the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2004\/mar\/26\/indonesia.philippines\">most corrupt leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So when the world\u2019s third-largest democracy announced this month that its late strongman leader Suharto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/10\/indonesia-declares-president-suharto-national-hero\">would be named a national hero<\/a>, activists and survivors were outraged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/indifferent-nostalgic-or-plain-pragmatic-indonesia-gen-zs-react-to-strongman-suhartos-national-hero-status\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision seen by some as \u2018blatant whitewashing\u2019 but many Gen Z have responded with indifference and even nostalgiaTo some Indonesians he is the antithesis of a hero \u2013 a former dictator accused of human rights abuses who once held the disreputable title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2163,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-prabowo-subianto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75194","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\/2163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75195,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75194\/revisions\/75195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}