Young Soeharto Megan Bradley as scenes from contemporary Iraq

as scenes from contemporary Iraq show

forces from the cosmos

The narrative urge is encoded in our DNA

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They preferred to say goodbye behind closed doors

Young Soeharto Megan Bradley as scenes from contemporary IraqWhen a reluctant President Sukarno gave Lt Gen Soeharto full executive authority in March 1966, Indonesia was a deeply divided nation, fractured along ideological, class, religious and ethnic lines. Soeharto took a country in chaos, the largest in Southeast Asia, and transformed it into one of the 'Asian miracle' economies only to leave it back on the brink of ruin when he was forced from office thirty two years later. Drawing on his astonishing range