Establishing The New Order
After being promoted, Suharto was assigned emergency powers on 11 March 1966 through a presidential decree by Sukarno known as the Supersemar. He would then go on to become president in 1967. Suharto proclaimed the New Order, to contrast it from the 'old order' of Sukarno's days. The New Order began with much popular support from groups keen to be free of the troubles of the past. The new generation of young leaders and intellectual life was loosely termed the angkatan 66 ("generation of 66"), however, within a few years the New Order elite, centred around a military faction, had alienated many of its original supporters. While rightists admired the New Order for eradicating the PKI and for its pro-Western policies, leftists despised it for doing the same. The government received admiration for stabilising the economy, but received condemnation for corruption and its human rights record.
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