In 1965, Indonesian president Sukarno was overthrown in a military coup and replaced by General Suharto. How did Sukarno take over Indonesia in the first place?
Sukarno was born in 1906 in Surabaya, East Java. He was educated in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and became politically active in the 1930s. He was appointed prime minister in 1945, after Indonesia’s independence from the Dutch, and became president the following year.
Sukarno was a charismatic leader, and he sought to promote Indonesian …