Word: suharto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Komando Jihad, or Holy War Command, a shadowy group of Muslim extremists dedicated to Iran-style Islamic revolution in Indonesia. Nervously brandishing machine guns, grenades and dynamite, they demanded $1.5 million in ransom and asylum for themselves and the 80 militants imprisoned by the government of Indonesian President Suharto...
Malik is a onetime president of the United Nations General Assembly and Indonesia's best-known statesman. As a civilian, however, he does not fully represent the military-dominated government. President Suharto, a former general, has recently told visiting U.S. Congressmen and Western diplomats that he still regards China as a bigger long-term threat to Indonesia than the U.S.S.R...
...Indonesia, corruption is so family-oriented that in the early 1970s, President Suharto's wife Tien was known as "Mrs. Ten Percent." These days scandal surrounds one Haji Achmad Thahir, a drab Indonesian government employee who never made more than $9,000 per year in salary in his life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill...