Former Indonesian President, Soeharto passed away today, Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 1.10pm at RSPP.
Good bye Pak Harto, may you rest in peace.
I heard about the news while I was browsing Expedia.com trying to daydream about going on vacation somewhere. Hubby was sleeping, then his mobile phone rang. His friend told him that Pak Harto passed away — so he must make action to move the wireless device planted by his client in RSPP (for the journalist) to Yogya.
We immediately switch on Metro TV and there it is….the news the nation awaits. It has been 24 days after he is admitted to the hospital. After several critical condition, several miraculous recovery (he was reported able to talk yesterday), today he was in critical condition again, before finally he submitted to the will of God AlMighty.
The Soeharto chronicle was one amazing happenings in early 2008. Right after he was admitted to RSPP, the hospital was the watering hole of many many many media. The once quite beautiful garden was rampaged by trucks from TV stations, eagerly await any news about his condition.
For about two weeks, print media’s front page was about his minute by minute condition. After seeing that he is probably not going to go soon, media started to move news about him to their inner pages. Even today’s papers do not have news about him in the front page. I bet, tomorrow, all papers will have a black banner with news about Pak Harto on their front page.
Pak Harto was one of Indonesia’s charismatic leader, despite of all charges addressed to him. Nobody could deny his leadership for 32 years have been providing Indonesian a chance to be seen and respected by other countries.
Farewell Pak Harto, rest in peace. I forgive you, and I appeal to all my fellow Indonesian to forgive him too.
PS: will tomorrow be declared as a holiday? or will the government declare three days of mourning? Naaaaah….I wish, but that’s highly unlikely. We’ll see.
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