maaf email atau password anda salah

Other Tempo Media
Majalah Tempo
Koran Tempo
Tempo.co
Subscribe

Road Blocks

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

There is a proposal to name a road after Suharto in Padang. This is a strategy to subtly restore the once glorious name of Suharto.

arsip tempo : 173514776594.

. tempo : 173514776594.

The proposal to rename Jalan Medan Merdeka Timur as 'Jalan Suharto' can be seen as a mere concept of 'creativity'. Everybody must be reminded that this is an insult to the spirit of Sukarno, who named the road Medan Merdeka, or Freedom Square, as a sign of his loathing of colonialism.

During the Dutch colonial period, it was a large square known as Koningspleinor King's Field. After Indonesia gained her freedom from Dutch colonialism, Sukarno replaced

...

Subscribe to continue reading.
We craft news with stories.

For the benefits of subscribing to Digital Tempo, See More

The Best Choice

Rp 54.945/Month

Active for 12 Months, Rp 659.340

  • *You Save -Rp 102.000
  • *Guaranteed update of up to 52 Editions of Tempo Magazine
Subscribe

Rp 64.380/Month

Active Every Month Cancel Anytime

  • *Free for the first month if using a Credit Card
Subscribe

See Other Packages

Already a Subscribed? Log in here
To receive daily news by Email, Sign up for Tempo ID.

More Articles

More exclusive contents

  • December 23, 2024

  • December 16, 2024

  • December 9, 2024

  • December 2, 2024

Independent journalism needs public support. By subscribing to Tempo, you will contribute to our ongoing efforts to produce accurate, in-depth and reliable information. We believe that you and everyone else can make all the right decisions if you receive correct and complete information. For this reason, since its establishment on March 6, 1971, Tempo has been and will always be committed to hard-hitting investigative journalism. For the public and the Republic.

Login Subscribe