Nasution, Suharto, and the Relay Race

Theres an ebb-and-tide sort of relationship between Nasution and Suharto. They were on the best of terms, briefly, following the failed alleged Communist coup in 1965 when they worked hand in hand to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) to its very roots.

Many see that Nasution played a role in bringing Suharto to the presidency only to be shelved by the son of a farmhand from Kemusuk in Yogyakarta. In the perspective of Indonesian histo

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