Suharto

Suharto was an army general who took effective control of Indonesia after the failed 1965 coup, during which the military and allied groups carried out mass killings of alleged communists; estimates of the dead commonly range from about half a million to over a million, and the scale remains debated. He formally became president in 1968 and ruled for three decades under his New Order, a pro-Western, authoritarian regime that delivered growth alongside deep corruption and repression, including the invasion and occupation of East Timor. He resigned in 1998 amid the Asian financial crisis and mass protests.