#suharto — Public Fediverse posts

A brutal ambush in Jakarta, which recalled Indonesia's decades under a military dictatorship, led to four arrests, but activists say many more were involved. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/29/asia-pacific/politics/acid-attack-indonesia-suharto-era/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #indonesia #terrorism #southeastasia #prabowosubianto #suharto

Authoritarian nostalgia is rising across Southeast Asia, as leaders and societies whitewash past dictatorships, threatening democratic institutions and stability throughout the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/26/world/asias-tyrants-seen-as-heroes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #suharto #indonesia #ferdinandmarcos #philippines #thailand #cambodia #globalsouth #asia #authoritarianism #democracy #humanrights

"Il primo ottobre di sessant'anni fa l'esercito di #Suharto dava inizio all'«annichilimento» dei militanti del #Pki e dei loro familiari: vennero sterminate tra 500 mila e un milione di persone."

#indonesia #IndonesianGenocide #2ottobre

https://jacobinitalia.it/indonesia-storia-di-un-genocidio-anticomunista/

"Il primo ottobre di sessant'anni fa l'esercito di #Suharto dava inizio all'«annichilimento» dei militanti del #Pki e dei loro familiari: vennero sterminate tra 500 mila e un milione di persone."

#indonesia #IndonesianGenocide #2ottobre

https://jacobinitalia.it/indonesia-storia-di-un-genocidio-anticomunista/

"Il primo ottobre di sessant'anni fa l'esercito di #Suharto dava inizio all'«annichilimento» dei militanti del #Pki e dei loro familiari: vennero sterminate tra 500 mila e un milione di persone."

#indonesia #IndonesianGenocide #2ottobre

https://jacobinitalia.it/indonesia-storia-di-un-genocidio-anticomunista/

"Il primo ottobre di sessant'anni fa l'esercito di #Suharto dava inizio all'«annichilimento» dei militanti del #Pki e dei loro familiari: vennero sterminate tra 500 mila e un milione di persone."

#indonesia #IndonesianGenocide #2ottobre

https://jacobinitalia.it/indonesia-storia-di-un-genocidio-anticomunista/

"Il primo ottobre di sessant'anni fa l'esercito di #Suharto dava inizio all'«annichilimento» dei militanti del #Pki e dei loro familiari: vennero sterminate tra 500 mila e un milione di persone."

#indonesia #IndonesianGenocide #2ottobre

https://jacobinitalia.it/indonesia-storia-di-un-genocidio-anticomunista/

LEVANTE: CORRISPONDENZA DALL’INDONESIA TRA IL NEOGOVERNO SUBIANTO E LE PRIME MOBILITAZIONI DAL BASSO https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/02/21/levante-corrispondenza-dallindonesia-tra-il-neogoverno-subianto-e-le-prime-mobilitazioni-dal-basso/ #INTERNAZIONALI #indonesia #subianto #jakarta #levante #suharto

LEVANTE: CORRISPONDENZA DALL’INDONESIA TRA IL NEOGOVERNO SUBIANTO E LE PRIME MOBILITAZIONI DAL BASSO https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/02/21/levante-corrispondenza-dallindonesia-tra-il-neogoverno-subianto-e-le-prime-mobilitazioni-dal-basso/ #INTERNAZIONALI #indonesia #subianto #jakarta #levante #suharto

LEVANTE: CORRISPONDENZA DALL’INDONESIA TRA IL NEOGOVERNO SUBIANTO E LE PRIME MOBILITAZIONI DAL BASSO https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/02/21/levante-corrispondenza-dallindonesia-tra-il-neogoverno-subianto-e-le-prime-mobilitazioni-dal-basso/ #INTERNAZIONALI #indonesia #subianto #jakarta #levante #suharto

LEVANTE: CORRISPONDENZA DALL’INDONESIA TRA IL NEOGOVERNO SUBIANTO E LE PRIME MOBILITAZIONI DAL BASSO https://www.radiondadurto.org/2025/02/21/levante-corrispondenza-dallindonesia-tra-il-neogoverno-subianto-e-le-prime-mobilitazioni-dal-basso/ #INTERNAZIONALI #indonesia #subianto #jakarta #levante #suharto

"The Berkeley Mafia was the term given to a group of University of California-trained economists in Indonesia who were given technocratic positions under the Suharto dictatorship during the late 1960s... Their work focused on promoting free-market capitalism in Indonesia and reversing many of the progressive economic reforms that had been introduced by the Sukarno government."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Mafia

#neoliberalism #Indonesia #BerkeleyMafia #UCBerkeley #Suharto #Sukarno

In #Indonesien wurde jüngst Prabowo #Subianto, der Ex-Schwiegersohn des langjährigen Militärdiktators #Suharto, zum Präsidenten gewählt. Die Hintergründe der Wahl in der «oligarchischen Demokratie» des Inselstaates analysiert John Sidel. 👇
https://www.rosalux.de/news/id/51816

In #Indonesien wurde jüngst Prabowo #Subianto, der Ex-Schwiegersohn des langjährigen Militärdiktators #Suharto, zum Präsidenten gewählt. Die Hintergründe der Wahl in der «oligarchischen Demokratie» des Inselstaates analysiert John Sidel. 👇
https://www.rosalux.de/news/id/51816

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

[Unattributed, but based on the writings of #UmbertoEco]

"#Historian #LawrenceBritt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego #CivilLiberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #FraudulentElections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

#History #Histodon #RabidRight #Antifa #Antifascism #FarRight #Trump #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Project2025 #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DetentionCenters #VoterDisenfranchisement #VoterIDLaws #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent

25 Jahre nach #Suharto: #Indonesien-Korrespondentin Christina Schott hat mit Aktivist*innen der #Demokratiebewegung gesprochen und hält einen persönlichen Rückblick. Ihr Double-Feature jetzt auf @riffreporter! #FürSieVorOrt
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/international/indonesien-demokratie-25-jahre-reformasi-goenawan-mohamad-andy-yentriyani
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/international/indonesien-demokratie-25-jahre-reformasi-suharto-diktatur-scheideweg

Jimmy Carter Illusions

To examine some main-stream media myths:

During his presidency, Carter proclaimed human rights to be “the soul of our foreign policy.” Although many journalists promoted that image, the reality was quite different.

Inaugurated 13 months after Indonesia’s December 1975 invasion of East Timor, Carter stepped up U.S. military aid to the Jakarta regime as it continued to murder Timorese civilians. By the time Carter left office, about 200,000 people had been slaughtered.

Elsewhere, despotic allies — from Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines to the Shah of Iran — received support from President Carter.

In El Salvador, the Carter administration provided key military aid to a brutal regime. In Nicaragua, contrary to myth, Carter backed dictator Anastasio Somoza almost until the end of his reign. In Guatemala — again contrary to enduring myth — major U.S. military shipments to bloody tyrants never ended.