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NAME: OBIT SUHART S 20080109Iflat TAPE: EF08/0106 IN_TIME: 11:05:54:01 DURATION: 00:06:15:00 SOURCES: Various - see script DATELINE: Various / File RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - March 11, 1998 1. Various of swearing-in ceremony for Indonesian President Suharto after winning a seventh five-year term in office SCTV - No Access Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia - July 6, 1999 2. Various of Suharto speaking to reporters after launching libel action against 'Time' magazine over allegations of corruption AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - December 2001 3. Suharto waving as he leaves hospital in a wheelchair, accompanied by his daughter AP PHOTOS - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile FILE: Location Unknown - 1960's 4. Black and white STILL of Suharto dressed as Colonel in Indonesian army AP Television FILE: Location Unknown - 1967 5. Black and white shot of then Indonesian President Sukarno and wife walking up steps 6. Black and white shot of Suharto sitting at desk after taking power AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - July 20, 1996 7. Suharto striking gong at ASEAN Conference AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - July 1996 8. Various of factory production line for Timor national car AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - January 1997 9. Skyline with modern buildings 10. Shoppers inside shopping mall AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - May 29, 1997 11. Suharto and daughter "Tutut" Siti Hardijanti Hastuti casting votes in election AP Television Jakarta, Indonesia - November 15, 1994 12. Suharto greeting US President Bill Clinton at APEC talks AP Television Cape Town, South Africa - November 22, 1997 13. Suharto receiving Order of Good Hope Award from South African President Nelson Mandela TVRI - No Access Indonesia Dili, East Timor - October 15, 1996 14. Suharto and officials walking 15. Suharto and official looking at map of East Timor 16. Close-up of map being examined Amnesty International Dili, East Timor - November 1991 17. People running - AUDIO of sirens 18. Man cradling injured man AP Television Jakarta - January 14, 1998 19. Newspaper headline about Suharto and IMF AP Television Jakarta - January 15, 1998 20. Suharto meeting IMF head Michel Camdessus AP Television Jakarta - January 13, 1998 21. Various of Indonesian stock exchange AP Television Jakarta - January 12, 1998 22. Various of people queuing to buy subsidised oil AP Television Jakarta - March 12, 1998 23. Various of demonstration against Suharto's re-election AP Television Jakarta - May 13, 1998 24. Truck being driven towards student protesters AP Television Jakarta - May 6, 1998 25. Various of protesters being chased by police AP Television Jakarta - May 14, 1998 26. Protester smashing windows of new car in showroom TVRI - No Access Indonesia Jakarta - May 21, 1998 27. Various of Suharto announcing resignation RCTI - No Access Indonesia Unknown date or location 28. Suharto on boat fishing RCTI - No Access Indonesia Jakarta - May 27, 1999 29. Various of Suharto undergoing questioning at Attorney General's office AP Television Jakarta - August 2000 30. Interior of courtroom 31. Judges 32. Empty chair with Suharto absent due to medical reasons AP Television Jakarta - 2000 33. Various of students clashing with riot police outside Suharto's residence AP Television Jakarta - November 2001 Night shots 34. Suharto's son Hutomo Mandala Putra, known as "Tommy", being taken into custody following arrest AP Television Jakarta - December 17, 2001 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 35. Ambulance taking Suharto to hospital following respiratory problems brought on by pneumonia 36. Suharto being carried from ambulance to hospital on trolley AP Television Jakarta - April 27, 2004 Day shots 37. Exterior of hospital 38. Suharto on bed, being wheeled away by nurses for treatment for intestinal bleeding AP Television Jakarta - May 5, 2004 39. Various of Suharto leaving hospital following treatment for intestinal bleeding AP Television Jakarta - February 19, 1998 40. Various of street mural depicting Suharto AP Television Jakarta - 3 May 2006 41. Various of Suharto, with Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad 42. Wide of Mahathir Mohamad's car leaving 43. Mid of Suharto AP Television Jakarta - 8 January 2008 44. Suharto in Pertamina Hospital being wheeled through corridor on bed with his daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana leaning over him Astro TV - No Access Indonesia Jakarta - 8 January 2008 45. Close-up of Suharto lying on bed, being wheeled down corridor STORYLINE: Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to one (m) million political opponents killed, died on Sunday of multi-organ failure. He was 86. Suharto had been ailing in a hospital in the capital since January 4 when he was admitted with failing kidneys, heart and lungs. Dozens of the country's best doctors prolonged his life for three weeks through dialysis and a ventilator, but he lost consciousness and stopped breathing on his own late on Saturday. A statement issued by chief presidential doctor, Marjo Subiandono, said he was declared dead at 1:10 p.m. (0600GMT). Finally toppled by mass street protests in 1998, the U.S. Cold War ally's departure opened the way for democracy in this predominantly Muslim nation of 235 (m) million people and he withdrew from public life, rarely venturing from his comfortable villa on a leafy lane in the capital. Suharto had ruled with a totalitarian dominance that saw soldiers stationed in every village, instilling a deep fear of authority across this Southeast Asian nation of some six-thousand inhabited islands that stretch across more than 4,825 kilometres (3,000 miles). Since being forced from power, he had been in and out of hospitals after strokes caused brain damage and impaired his speech. Blood transfusions and a pacemaker prolonged his life, but he suffered from lung, kidney, liver and heart problems. Suharto was vilified as one of the world's most brutal rulers and was accused of overseeing a graft-ridden reign. But poor health - and continuing corruption, critics charge - kept him from court after he was chased from office by widespread unrest at the peak of the Asian financial crisis. The bulk of political killings blamed on Suharto occurred in the 1960s, soon after he seized power. In later years, some 300-thousand people were slain, disappeared or jailed in the independence-minded regions of East Timor, Aceh and Papua, human rights groups and the United Nations say. Suharto's successors as head of state - B.J. Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati Sukarnoputri and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono - vowed to end corruption that took root under Suharto, yet many suggest it remains endemic at all levels of Indonesian society. With the court system paralyzed by corruption, rather than put on trial those accused of mass murder and multi-billion-dollar (euro) theft, some members of the political elite consistently called for charges against Suharto to be dropped on humanitarian grounds. Some noted Suharto also oversaw decades of economic expansion that made Indonesia the envy of the developing world. Today, nearly a quarter of Indonesians live in poverty, and many long for the Suharto era's stability, when fuel and rice were affordable. But critics say Suharto squandered Indonesia's vast natural resources of oil, timber and gold, siphoning the nation's wealth to benefit his cronies and family. Those who profited from Suharto's rule made sure he was never portrayed in a harsh light at home, so he was able to stay in his native country even after being driven from power. Like many Indonesians, Suharto used only one name. He was born on June 8, 1921, to a family of rice farmers in the village of Godean, in the dominant Indonesian province of Central Java. When Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch in 1949, Suharto quickly rose through the ranks of the military to become a staff officer. His career nearly foundered in the late 1950s, when the army's then-commander, General Abdul Haris Nasution, accused him of corruption in awarding army contracts. Absolute power came in September 1965 when the army's six top generals were murdered under mysterious circumstances, and their bodies dumped in an abandoned well in an apparent coup attempt. Suharto, next in line for command, quickly asserted authority over the armed forces and promoted himself to four-star general. Suharto then oversaw a nationwide purge of suspected communists and trade unionists, a campaign that stood as the region's bloodiest event since World War II until the Khmer Rouge established its gruesome regime in Cambodia a decade later. Experts put the number of deaths during the purge at between 500-thousand and one (m) million. Over the next year, Suharto eased out of office Indonesia's first post-independence president, Sukarno, who died under house arrest in 1970. The legislature rubber-stamped Suharto's presidency and he was re-elected unopposed six times. During the Cold War, Suharto was considered a reliable friend of Washington, which didn't oppose his violent occupation of Papua in 1969 and the bloody 1974 invasion of East Timor. The latter, a former Portuguese colony, became Asia's youngest country with a U.N.-sponsored plebiscite in 1999. Even Suharto's critics agree his hard-line policies kept a lid on Indonesia's extremists. He locked up hundreds of suspected Islamic militants without trial, some of whom later carried out deadly suicide bombings with the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah after the September 11 attack on the U.S. Meanwhile, the ruling clique that formed around Suharto - nicknamed the "Berkeley mafia" after their American university, the University of California, Berkeley - transformed Indonesia's economy and attracted (b) billions of dollars in foreign investment. By the late 1980s, Suharto was describing himself as Indonesia's "father of development," taking credit for slowly reducing the number of abjectly poor and modernising parts of the nation. But the government also became notorious for unfettered nepotism, and Indonesia was regularly ranked as one of the world's most corrupt nations as Suharto's inner circle amassed fabulous wealth. The World Bank estimates 20 percent to 30 percent of Indonesia's development budget was embezzled during his rule. Even today, Suharto's children and aging associates have considerable sway over the country's business, politics and courts. Efforts to recover the money have been fruitless. Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, was released from prison in 2006 after serving a third of a 15-year sentence for ordering the assassination of a Supreme Court judge. Another son, Bambang Trihatmodjo, joined the Forbes list of wealthiest Indonesians in 2007, with 200 (m) million US dollars (136 (m) million euros) from his stake in the conglomerate, Mediacom. Suharto's economic policies, based on unsecured borrowing by his cronies, dramatically unravelled shortly before he was toppled in May 1998. Indonesia is still recovering from what economists called the worst economic meltdown anywhere in 50 years. State prosecutors accused Suharto of embezzling about 600 (m) million Us dollars (408 (m) million euros) via a complex web of foundations under his control, but he never saw the inside of a courtroom. In September 2000, judges ruled he was too ill to stand trial, though many people believed the decision really stemmed from the lingering influence of the former dictator and his family. In 2007, Suharto won a 106 (m) million US dollars (71.7 (m) million euros) defamation lawsuit against Time magazine for accusing the family of acquiring 15 (b) billion US dollars (10.2 (b) billion euros) in stolen state funds. The former dictator told the news magazine Gatra in a rare interview in November 2007 that he would donate the bulk of any legal windfall to the needy, while he dismissed corruption accusations as "empty talk." Suharto's wife of 49 years, Indonesian royal Siti Hartinah, died in 1996. The couple had three sons and three daughters.