Soeharto's Political Legacy

R. William Liddle

President Soeharto was a dictator who smoothed the transition to democracy in his country in many ways without intending to do so. I don't know how this fact will be evaluated in future by historians, who usually give more weight to actors' intentions than just to the outcomes of their actions. But as a long-time observer who never believed that the authoritarian New Order would be succeeded directly by a stable democracy, I fe

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