Background
SUHARTO, General was born on June 8, 1921 in Kemusu, Yogjakarta.
SUHARTO, General was born on June 8, 1921 in Kemusu, Yogjakarta.
Military schools and Indonesian Army Staff and Command College.
Deputy Chief of Army Staff 1960-1965. Chief of Army Staff 1965-1968, Supreme Commander 1968-1973. Minister of Army 1965.
Assumed emergency executive powers March 1966.
Deputy Prime Minister for Defence and Security 1966. Chair, of Presidium of Cabinet, in charge of Defence and Security, also Minister of Army 1966-1967.
Full General 1966. Acting President, of Indonesia 1967-1968.
Prime Minister 1967, concurrently Minister for Defence and Security 1967-1973. President, of Indonesia March since 1968.
United Nations Population.
Married Siti Hartinah in 1947.