LegalAid Foundation Sees No Urgency in Declaring Soeharto as Hero
22 May 2016 09:54 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Director of Advocates of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation Bahrain said that recognizing Soeharto as a national hero has no urgency.
He also said that that move would lead to controversies in the public.
"If Soeharto will be recognized as a national hero, Sukarno has not been recognized as well. There’s no urgency in recognizing Soeharto as a national hero,” Bahrain said in Jakarta on Satruday (21/5).
Bahrain even said that it is Tan Malaka who has to be recognized as a national hero because his thoughts were translated by Sukarno and Hatta to found this nation before independence.
"All heroes that built the national have to be recognized as national heroes,” he added.
In addition, Bahrain said that by recognizing Soeharto as a national hero, there will be the issue of the 1965 incident and the truth of history has to be revealed first.
ARKHELAUS W.