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Suharto

1921 - 2008

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Suharto ( soo-HAR-toh, Indonesian: [suˈharto] ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime from the fall of his predecessor Sukarno in 1967 until his resignation in 1998 following nationwide unrest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Suharto has received more than 3,458,689 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 92 in 2019). Suharto is the 645th most popular politician (down from 616th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Indonesia and the 2nd most popular Indonesian Politician.

Suharto is most famous for being the president of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998. He was the first president of Indonesia to be democratically elected.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Suharto ranks 645 out of 15,577. Before him are Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Igor of Kiev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Edmund Burke, and Michael I of Romania. After him are Kliment Voroshilov, Tiberius Gracchus, Daniel Ortega, Benjamin Netanyahu, Edward the Elder, and Archduchess Gisela of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Suharto ranks 9. Before him are Alexander Dubček, Astor Piazzolla, Stanisław Lem, Andrei Sakharov, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, and Michael I of Romania. After him are John Rawls, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Yves Montand, Hua Guofeng, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, and Joseph Beuys. Among people deceased in 2008, Suharto ranks 9. Before him are Bobby Fischer, Paul Newman, Edmund Hillary, Chinghiz Aitmatov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Irena Sendler. After him are Samuel P. Huntington, Charlton Heston, Albert Hofmann, Hua Guofeng, Sydney Pollack, and Jørn Utzon.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Suharto ranks 2 out of 126. Before him are Sukarno (1901). After him are Willem Einthoven (1860), B. J. Habibie (1936), Joko Widodo (1961), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Anthony Fokker (1890), Gajah Mada (1290), Mohammad Hatta (1902), and Dharmakirti (700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Indonesia

Among politicians born in Indonesia, Suharto ranks 2. Before him are Sukarno (1901). After him are B. J. Habibie (1936), Joko Widodo (1961), Megawati Sukarnoputri (1947), Abdurrahman Wahid (1940), Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), Gajah Mada (1290), Mohammad Hatta (1902), Diponegoro (1785), Jusuf Kalla (1942), and Tan Malaka (1897).

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