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On 12 March 1967, the MPRS agreed to withdraw its mandate from Sukarno and remove him as president. [4] Suharto was appointed acting president to replace Sukarno. He was officially elected by the MPRS on 27 March 1968 to a full five-year term, becoming the second president of Indonesia. [5]
Suharto [b] [c] (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian military officer and the second president of Indonesia.Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto led Indonesia as an authoritarian regime from 1967 until his resignation in 1998 following nationwide unrest.
In July 1967, the government simplified the export and import procedures in addition to taking a step back and giving private sector an opportunity and assistance to conduct trade. [38] [39] For the year 1967, Indonesia was able to earn $770 million from its exports, although it would spend $805 million from its imports and thus running a trade ...
It was the third presidential election in Indonesia after the 1945 and 1963 elections. Suharto was officially elected president on 27 March 1968 for a five-year term after previously holding the position of acting president since 1967, when Sukarno was officially impeached and removed by the MPRS.
On 12 March 1967, the MPRS agreed to withdraw its mandate from Sukarno and remove him as president. Suharto replaced Sukarno as acting president until 27 March 1968, when he was formally elected as the second president of Indonesia. 2 27 March 1968: 23 March 1973 1968: 30 years, 55 days Golkar (supported by the military) Vacant: 23 March 1973
However, there was another acting president, Sartono. His term was much shorter, lasting only five months (6 January 1959 – 2 July 1959). His resigned himself 3 days before the President Sukarno's 1959 Decree and the transition to the Guided Democracy government, making him as the "shortest-serving president in Indonesia's history".
Indonesia's transition to the New Order in the mid-1960s ousted the country's first president, Sukarno, after 22 years in the position.One of the most tumultuous periods in the country's modern history, it was also the commencement of Suharto's 31-year presidency.
The Ampera Cabinet (Indonesian: Kabinet Ampera) was the Indonesian cabinet which served under President Sukarno and later on acting president Suharto from July 1966 until October 1967. The cabinet was formed after the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) session of 1966 which commissioned Suharto to form a new cabinet. [ 1 ]