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The New York Times
Suharto Museum Celebrates a Dictator’s Life, Omitting the Dark Chapters
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Aug 14, 2017
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Indonesia’s former dictator looms in bronze over the entrance to the small museum set amid the palm trees and rice fields of central Java.
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