Suharto, Indonesia's second president and a famous dictator in history, was investigated before he stepped down, and the results of the investigation shocked the world, showing that Suharto embezzled $15 billion during his tenure, which is equivalent to 40% of Indonesia's gdp, and the Suharto family's assets at that time amounted to $35 billion.
What is even more terrifying is that the dictatorship and tyranny of Suharto's tenure also led to the deaths of 500,000 people, part of which was caused by his forcible annexation of East Timor, and most of these hundreds of thousands of people are Chinese. In fact, this has a lot to do with the influence of Japanese militarism when he was young.
Born in 1921 in a small village in Yogyakarta, south-central Java, Indonesia, Suharto's parents were farmers, and divorced when he was very young, both sides formed new families, for a time Suharto seemed to be an outcast, one would live in this relative's home, the other would live in that relative's home, this harsh living environment had a huge impact on him, he felt that the world was betraying him, which made his character more and more cold.
At that time, Guawa was a Dutch colony, Germany occupied the Netherlands in World War II, the suzerainty fell, and because Japan was eyeing Indonesia's oil resources, in order to resist the external crisis, the Dutch Royal East Indies Army recruited the local people of Guawa to join the army, and the newly adult Suharto joined the Dutch colonial army at this time.
In 1942, the Japanese army occupied Guawa, the Dutch surrendered, Suharto joined the Japanese army in Guawa Yogyakarta set up a security team, to put it bluntly is the "two devils" that everyone often scolds, Suharto is not opposed to colonialism, in his view, the colonizers can help them develop, but Suharto has no good feelings for the Dutch colonists, he and the Dutch do not have much intersection.
Suharto has more affection for the Japanese, because the Japanese value his ability, but also continue to promote him, from a humble soldier, to a platoon leader, company commander, during the service of the Japanese, Suharto came into contact with the Japanese Bushido spirit, but also by the Japanese militarist ideas to be deeply brainwashed, which made him sincerely believe that the Japanese came to liberate them.
By the end of World War II, the Japanese had more and more trust in Suharto, and even established a new corps to give Himharto to train, and after the Japanese gained trust and resources, Suharto took control of the Indonesian army in the Indonesian independence movement, and his position became higher and higher, which laid the foundation for him to become indonesia's second president.
Suharto differed from Sukarno, indonesia's first president, who was quite friendly to China and tried to improve relations with New China during his tenure, while the Indonesian army generals led by Suharto were very disgusted with China, even to the stage of hatred, probably because most of the indonesian army generals at that time were selected from the Japanese army, and the idea they accepted was hatred of China. Most of the Indonesian Chinese in the 1960s suffered more miserably, which may be related to the poisonous tumor ideas instilled by the Japanese.