Adi Abidin – In the pantheon of Southeast Asia's strongmen, Soeharto and Rodrigo Duterte occupy adjoining pedestals – both built on fear and polished by the rhetoric of 'order.' Each pr

In a move that has ignited a fierce national debate on historical memory and justice, President Prabowo Subianto officially bestowed the title of National Hero upon Indonesia's second p

Tess McClure – To some Indonesians he is the antithesis of a hero – a former dictator accused of human rights abuses who once held the disreputable title of one of the world's most corr

Terry Friel – Indonesian President General Prabowo Subianto – accused of war crimes – has officially declared his former father-in-law, Suharto, a national hero.

Ken Setiawan – On 10 November 2025, President Prabowo Subianto proclaimed former Indonesian dictator Soeharto a national hero.

Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto has created a new sub-category of National Hero, an official title which the country awards to its best sons and daughters for outstanding services

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's decision to award Soeharto the national hero title could be challenged in the State Administrative Court (PTUN).

Jakarta – What kind of role model could Suharto possibly offer if the man who ruled Indonesia for 32 years were to be honored as a national hero?

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has formally expressed its objection to President Prabowo Subianto's decree awarding former presiden

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesia's constitutional law experts say the recent decision to confer the title of national hero on former president Soeharto could be legally challenged

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle or PDIP has stated that it does not question the conferral of the national hero title to the 4th President Ab

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The media monitoring platform Drone Emprit has analyzed public reactions on social media to the recent decision to grant former Indonesian President Soehart

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – Democracy and Election Empowerment Partnership, or DEEP, a non-governmental organization focused on electoral and democratic studies, released the findin

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian public is protesting the granting of the national hero title to former president Soeharto.

Sita Planasari, Jakarta – The title of National Hero was bestowed upon former Indonesian President Soeharto on Monday, sparking controversy both domestically and internationally.

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The Alliance of the Students Executive Board of the University of Indonesia (BEM UI Alliance) rejects the bestowal of the title of national hero on the 2nd

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – Despite mounting criticism and public opposition, President Prabowo Subianto has officially conferred the title of National Hero on former president Soeh

The Civil Society Movement to Bring Suharto to Justice (GEMAS) strongly condemns the awarding of the title of national hero on the second President of the Republic of Indonesia H. M.

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) criticizes the bestowal of the national hero title to former president Soeharto.

Andi Adam Faturahman, Jakarta – Efforts to designate former Indonesian president Soeharto as a national hero have progressed smoothly during President Prabowo Subianto's leadership.

Activists condemn award by ex-son-in-law President Prabowo, branding it betrayal of Soeharto's victims and democracy.

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – Indonesian Culture Minister Fadli Zon claimed that various allegations of corruption and human rights violations involving former president Soeharto were neve

Niniek Karmini and Achmad Ibrahim, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia declared the former dictator Suharto a national hero on Monday, provoking outrage from rights group who said the move w

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto declared 10 people "national heroes" on November 10, which Indonesia celebrates as Heroes Day.

Julia Lau – Indonesian President Prabowo is choosing family loyalties over the country's unity by anointing his former father-in-law as a national hero.

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – The eldest daughter of former Indonesian president Soeharto responded calmly to public criticism over her late father's recent designation as a Natio

Kate Lamb – Indonesia has awarded former authoritarian leader Suharto the title of national hero, in a move that has sparked accusations of historical revisionism in the world's third-l

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – A recent social media analysis by Drone Emprit shows that public sentiment toward the proposal to name former Indonesian president Soeharto a National Hero

Novali Panji Nugroho, Jakarta – The Ministry of Social Affairs proposed naming Soeharto as a national hero, a suggestion that has since been accepted by the Palace.

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Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – The Alliance of Civil Society Movement for Holding Soeharto Accountable (Gemas) will hold a protest at the Indonesian Ministry of Culture office in Jakarta

Sultan Abdurrahman, Jakarta – Several demonstrators staged a protest at the Indonesian Ministry of Culture on Thursday, November 6, 2025, opposing the conferral of the national hero tit

Erick Tanjung, Fakhri Fuadi – The Civil Society Movement to Bring Suharto to Justice (GEMAS) held a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Culture offices in Central Jakarta on Thurs

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Rangga Samudra, Jakarta – Indonesia is debating whether to grant former president Soeharto the title of national hero, as senior officials and political figure

Rafiqa Qurrata A'yun – 10 November is Indonesia's Heroes' Day, and President Prabowo Subianto is a few steps closer to declaring his former father-in-law, the late autocrat president So

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Head of the Council for Orders, Decorations, and Honorary Titles (DGTK) Fadli Zon said there is no evidence linking former president Soeharto to the 1965-19

Dede Leni Mardianti, Jakarta – The Chair of the Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) Fatwa Department, Asrorun Niam Sholeh, said that all former presidents of Indonesia deserve to be recogn

Jakarta – The Indonesian Caucus for Academic Freedom (KIKA) has rejected the proposal to name Indonesia's second president Suharto a national hero.

The proposal to name former president Suharto a national hero is a policy that is blind to history and defies the law.

On Thursday October 30, the Civil Society Movement to Bring Suharto to Justice (GEMAS), which consists of victims of gross human rights violations, individuals and civil society organis

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – Indonesia's Secretary of State, Prasetyo Hadi, confirmed that the Presidential Palace has received a list of national hero candidates submitted by the Minis

Jakarta – A number of historians and civil society groups have criticised the proposal that the late 2nd President of the Republic of Indonesia, Suharto, be awarded the title of nationa

Hendrik Yaputra, Jakarta – The Chair of the Setara Institute National Council, Hendardi, believes that former Indonesian President Soeharto is not deserving of the title of national her

Suharto's nearly 32-year rule considered one of the most brutal, corrupt regimes in 20th century

Responding to,, the inclusion of the name of the second president of the Republic of Indonesia, Suharto, on the list of candidates for the title of national hero, Amnesty International

Jakarta – Civil Society Movement to Bring Suharto to Justice (GEMAS) says that the proposal by the Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos), Saifullah Yusuf alias Gus Ipul, for the 2nd Presi

Danu Damarjati, Jakarta – Thousands of imitation skulls were scattered around a hotel in Jakarta on Saturday May 24 as a symbol of how dark and terrifying the New Order era of former pr

Nicholas Ryan Aditya, Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – Hundreds of people from a number of 1998 activist groups gathered at a hotel in South Jakarta on Saturday May 24 to discuss and expr

On Thursday May 15, the Civil Society Movement to Bring Suharto to Justice (GEMAS), which is made up of the victims and families of victims of gross human rights violations along with a

Jakarta – International civil society organizations strongly condemn the initiative to grant the title of National Hero to Soeharto, the second President of the Republic of Indonesia.