Suharto: life of the dictator

Lieutenant General Suharto photographed in April 1966. He later became known as the Smiling General, although he ruled Indonesia with an iron fist Photograph: Corbis

Suharto photographed in 1967 wearing Javanese dress and standing behind his desk, next to a globe which he liked to place upside down Photograph: Larry Burrows/Getty

President Suharto reading a newspaper to his family in their home Photograph: Larry Burrows/Getty

Suharto holds a rifle as he sits with his five-year-old son, Hutomo Mandala Putra, popularly known as Tommy, during a 1968 bird shoot north of Jakarta Photograph: AP

Suharto and his wife practise on military pistol range, while their son Tommy covers his ears Photograph: Larry Burrows/Getty

US president Richard Nixon with Suharto as their wives, Pat Nixon and Madame Tien, look on Photograph: Arthur Schatz/Getty

A student burns a portrait of the president during a violent anti-Suharto protest in 1998 at the National University in southern Jakarta. A number of students were injured by rubber bullets fired by police amid a stone-throwing battle Photograph: Tatan Syuflana/AP

At the University of Padjadjaran, more than 2,000 students from several universities clash with riot police during a 1998 demonstration calling for political and economical reform and Suharto's resignation Photograph: AP

Students seeking the resignation of Suharto take over the parliament building in Jakarta on May 19 1998 Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty

A boy holds a defaced poster of Suharto containing the words 'Corrupt King' during a protest outside the attorney general's office in Jakarta in December 1998 Photograph: Tatan Syuflana/AP

Student demonstrators throw rocks at riot police during a clash near Suharto's home in Jakarta in 2000 when he was held under "city arrest", a legal procedure meant to keep him in the capital while he was investigated for corruption Photograph: Dita Alangkara/AP

Protesters burn a banner depicting Suharto during a demonstration near his home in Jakarta in 2001. They were demanding the dissolution of the former ruling Golkar party, a remnant of the Suharto regime, which they accused of trying to unseat the president, Abdurrahman Wahid Photograph: Achmad Ibrahim/AP

Plainclothes policemen arrest a student protestor during a demonstration in Jakarta in 2002, which demanded that the government bring Suharto to trial Photograph: Ade Danhur/EPA

Protesters shout slogans against Suharto in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta in 2006. They were demanding the trial of Suharto after the attorney general's office dropped a case against the ailing ex-president, who was accused of embezzling billions of dollars in state assets during his 32-year rule, due to his poor health Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP

An Indonesian student wears a scarf reading "Put Suharto on trial" during an anti-Suharto demonstration in front of the government palace in May 2007, nine years after the dictator's government fell Photograph: Ed Wray/AP

Tommy Suharto, the former dictator's youngest son, speaks to journalists as he arrives at the attorney general's office in Jakarta in August 2007 to be questioned as a suspect in a multi-million dollar embezzlement case. He was accused of taking government funds that should have gone to farmers Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP

Suharto smiles during an interview at his residence in Jakarta in 1999 on the first anniversary of his removal from power Photograph: Anastasia Vrachnos/EPA