# Indonesia buries mass-murderer Suharto with full military honors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 28, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indonesia-buries-mass-murderer-suharto-with-full-military-honors/435333 "2008-01-28T17:51:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indonesia-buries-mass-murderer-suharto-with-full-military-honors/435333/41 "2008-01-30T18:39:32Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] I was instead using the cliché about Mussolini to sarcastically respond to the assertions made in Captain Amazing’s posts about some of the allegedly “good” things that happened under Suharto’s brutal leadership. [/QUOTE] If it helps, I got your sarcasm. But here’s the thing…those things I mentioned…stopping inflation, drastically reducing unemployment, getting Indonesia to a state where it could feed itself, making the state stable, etc. weren’t just “allegedly ‘good’”. They were actually good, and helped the lives (and in many cases saved the lives) of Indonesians. Does this stuff balance out with all the bad stuff he did? I don’t know. But if you’re asking why anyone would want to honor Suharto, you have to look at the ways he helped Indonesia as well as the ways he harmed it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indonesia-buries-mass-murderer-suharto-with-full-military-honors/435333/42 "2008-01-30T18:48:03Z")
We should nuke him from orbit…it’s the only way to be sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indonesia-buries-mass-murderer-suharto-with-full-military-honors/435333.md?page=2)