Indrawati Joe Instructor Mr. Bac Sierra English 90 2 July 2002 Former President Suharto Former President Suharto had held the power of government of Indonesia approximately thirty-two years before his fall from his presidential seat on March 21st 1998. Within thirty-two years, he had improved our nation from backwardness; he had moved the country forward to the prosperity. The Chinese society and the native lived peacefully. But as the reality, Chinese society had the standard of living better than the native that caused the exacerbation of social imbalance. This problem had been persisted for a long time. Patience was limited; the native had ...view middle of the document...
Intentionally, Former President Suharto made such as decision above because he didn't want Chinese society to be particularly involved in politic. We as Chinese society didn't have any rights to speak and be part of the government. As long as we didn't attempt to make such as correction and complainant toward they way he ruled the country; we were saved. With such as attitude, we know that something was up behind this. As we all know that corruption and nepotism were two common problems that often happened in this world. Former President Suharto and his administration had badly operated corruption and nepotism for thirty-two years during his regime. This custom had rooted all over the foundation of the government. With the result that corruption and nepotism were hardly to be vanished. Eventually, the society couldn't stand with this issue. They started to speak out. This was the beginning of reformation. The tragedy happened on May 12th -14th 1998 where students from all over universities in the country gathered in the capital. They marched along the way showing their dissatisfaction toward the government of doing corruption and nepotism. They demanded Former President Suharto to step down from his presidential seat that he had just won throughout the campaign. His party, which was happened to be the biggest political party in Indonesia, had won him again to be the president of Indonesia. He showed how ridiculous he was by doing the nepotism of choosing the people for his cabinet. All of these caused strong reactions from various realms of society. Finally, Suharto' stubbornness for not stepping down had be overcome until six students died with bullets emerged across their body. Chaos had happened, ...
