Rosihan and the Leaders of the Nation
He was close to Sukarno, Suharto, Habibie and Gus Dur but did not know either Megawati or Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono well.
March 23, 2011
DURING the early 1950s Pedoman was the newspaper with the largest circulation. Many thought that its large circulation was due to the fact that I was a member of the PSI (Indonesian Socialist Party) which at the time had Pedoman as their party newspaper. As a matter of fact it was not the PSI that funded Pedoman but rather I who offered to make it a pro-PSI newspaper because to tell you the truth the PSI never had enough funds to set up a newspap
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