JAKARTA. An activist has opposed the idea proposed by the Golkar Party to name late dictator Soeharto a national hero, saying that the blemishes in his record made him ineligible. A hero was someone who had done something meritorious, Panel Barus, an activist during the 1998 reform movement said on Sunday. "Soeharto developed Indonesia on debt that later in 1997 brought Indonesia's economy to the point of collapse," he said as quoted by news portal kompas.com.
"Soeharto doesn't deserve to be a national hero"
JAKARTA. An activist has opposed the idea proposed by the Golkar Party to name late dictator Soeharto a national hero, saying that the blemishes in his record made him ineligible. A hero was someone who had done something meritorious, Panel Barus, an activist during the 1998 reform movement said on Sunday. "Soeharto developed Indonesia on debt that later in 1997 brought Indonesia's economy to the point of collapse," he said as quoted by news portal kompas.com.