How much money did Suharto corrupt?

In Global Transparency Report, made by Transparency International in 2004, he was ranked as the world’s most corrupt leader. The report accused Suharto of causing losses of US$15–35 billion for the Indonesian government.

Why did Chinese immigrants go to Indonesia?

Ethnic Chinese, Arab, and Dutch businessmen were specifically targeted during its enforcement to provide a more favorable market for indigenous businesses. This move was met with protests from the Chinese government and some circles of Indonesian society.

Was Prabowo involved in the anti-Chinese riot of 1998?

In all of this it remains difficult to find evidence of direct involvement by Prabowo in the May 1998 anti-Chinese riot. But based on the analysis above, at least we may conclude that Prabowo had an interest in portraying Indonesian Chinese as a scapegoat for the financial crisis of 1997.

Does Prabowo need a race-riot to apply the same economic model in Indonesia?

Is it possible that Prabowo felt that to apply the same economic model in Indonesia likewise required a race-riot to serve as a pretext for an “Indonesian NEP”? Of course, the riots of May 1998 failed to achieve this.

Will Prabowo Subianto feel the full force of the Jakarta riots?

The riots, whose victims were mainly Chinese, helped usher in the resignation of President Suharto and the fall of the New Order regime. Now another Indonesian presidential hopeful, Prabowo Subianto, could feel the full force of their legacy.

Were the 1998 riots in Indonesia designed to’exterminate’Chinese-Indonesians?

Of course, just like the 1969 riots in Malaysia that led to the implementation of the NEP as a ‘solution’, the May 1998 riots in Indonesia were also not designed to ‘exterminate’ Chinese-Indonesians, but rather to act as a punishment for dominating the economy.