A cornerstone of Indonesia's contemporary foreign policy is its participation in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ), of which it was a founding member in 1967 with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

The army subsequently led an anti-communist purge, and Suharto wrested power from Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno.

Soe's teen and college years was spent under the regime of Indonesia's founding father Sukarno, which was characterised with conflict between the military and the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ).

Soe and his friends insisted that they were politically neutral ; and as much as Soe has respect for Sukarno as Indonesia's founding father, Soe detested Sukarno's dictatorship which caused the poor and the oppressed to suffer.

Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.

Megawati is the daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.

In March 1968, General Suharto was officially elected by the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ) as Indonesia's second president.

The PDI – P was led by Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of Sukarno, Indonesia's first president.

Although the BBC reported him once stating that " no woman was fit to head the world's leading Muslim nation ", he came into office as the deputy to Indonesia's first female president.

* Adam Malik ( 1917 – 1984 ), Indonesia's third vice president

He was Indonesia's first vice president, later also serving as the country's Prime Minister.

On 18 August 1945, Hatta was selected as Indonesia's first Vice President by the PPKI to accompany Sukarno, who had been elected as the nation's first president.

Indonesia's second president, Suharto, was a strong supporter of Pancasila.

Adam Malik Batubara ( 22 July 1917 – 5 September 1984 ) was Indonesia's third vice president, a senior diplomat, and one of the pioneers of Indonesian journalism.

Sudharmono ( 12 March 1927 – 25 January 2006 ) was Indonesia's fifth vice president, and was in office during the period 1988-1993.

Try Sutrisno ( born Surabaya, East Java 15 November 1935 ) was Indonesia's sixth vice president from 1993 to 1998.

The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) had planned to bring down Indonesia's first president Sukarno by portraying him in a pornographic film in the late 1950s.

Eros then formed the Bung Karno National Party, named after Indonesia's first president Sukarno.

It was founded in 2002 and was initially led by Rachmawati Sukarnoputri, a daughter of Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, and sister of former Indonesian president Megawati. It contested the 2009 elections, but received only 0. 3 percent of the vote, well below the threshold of 2. 5 % of the political votes, and was awarded no seats in the People's Representative Council.

Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967.

In order to increase Indonesia's prestige, Sukarno supported and won the bid for the 1962 Asian Games held in Jakarta.

As Sukarno's domestic grip on power was secured, he began to pay more attention to the world stage, where Sukarno embarked on a series of aggressive and assertive policies based on anti-imperialism to increase Indonesia's prestige internationally.

On 12 March 1967, Sukarno was stripped of his remaining power by Indonesia's provisional Parliament, and Suharto was named Acting President.

Megawati Sukarnoputri was born in Yogyakarta to President Sukarno, who had declared Indonesia's independence from the Netherlands in 1945 and Fatmawati, one of Sukarno's nine wives.

Sukarno, who had wanted one united front to gain Indonesia's independence was uncertain, thinking that in choosing one over the other, he would encourage division.

Syahrir told Hatta that they would have to encourage Sukarno to proclaim Indonesia's independence immediately, because in a couple of days the Japanese might not be there to provide supervision.

Finally, on 17 August 1945, at Sukarno's residence, Indonesia's Independence was finally proclaimed in a short statement on paper signed by both Sukarno and Hatta.

His works span the colonial period, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during the Second World War, as well as the post-colonial authoritarian regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, and are infused with personal and national history.

Among other coups, the league claims to have played a part in the 1966 overthrow of Indonesia's President Sukarno.

After Sukarno declared Indonesia's independence on 17 August 1945, Nasution joined the fledgling Indonesian Army which was then known as the People's Security Army ( TKR ).

Following Dutch recognition of Indonesia's independence, the PDRI returned its powers to Sukarno and Hatta, and Nasution returned to his position as Deputy Commander to Sudirman.

Sukarno did not give up and continued to push for it to be included as part of Indonesia through the United Nations and through the Bandung Conference, where the attending nations promised to support Indonesia's claim.

Sukarno and Hatta finally declared Indonesia's Independence, on 17 August 1945.

It is named after Sukarno, Indonesia's first President.

On 21 December 1948, the Dutch successfully occupied Yogyakarta and arrested Sukarno and Hatta, Indonesia's first President and Vice President.

Whilst Indonesian is spoken as a mother tongue by only a small proportion of Indonesia's large population ( i. e. mainly those who reside within the vicinity of Jakarta and other large predominantly Indonesian-speaking cities such as Medan and Balikpapan ), over 200 million people regularly make use of the national language, with varying degrees of proficiency.

Inter-city serves some of Indonesia's major cities like Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Padang, and Palembang.

Although Indonesia's bus system was not the first version of BRT, it has the longest routes as of 2012 with more than overall, including in the capital city of Jakarta, and it has been implemented at least in six Indonesian cities.

The city is Indonesia's fourth most populous after Jakarta, Surabaya, and Bandung, and Indonesia's largest city outside of Java island.

The original building in central Jakarta where Indonesia's legislature, the People's Representative Council ( DPR ) met from 1950

DPR / MPR Building | The Building in Jakarta where Indonesia's People's Representative Council holds its plenary sessions

Their homeland in Banten, Java is contained in just of hilly forest area from Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

It is Indonesia's 4th largest metropolitan area, after Greater Jakarta, Gerbangkertosusila ( Surabaya ), and Bandung Metropolitan Area.

Jakarta is considered as one of Indonesia's provinces so Jakarta is headed by a governor and not a mayor.

When the challenge round returned to Jakarta in 1967 a resurgent Malaysia led Indonesia 4 – 3 ( despite the spectacular debut of Indonesia's young Rudy Hartono ) when crowd interference during the eighth match prompted tournament referee Herbert Scheele to halt play.

He also disputed the official explanation for the bombings of the Australian embassy and Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

In his investigation of the first Bali bomb, Vialls cited an opinion article in the Jakarta Post, Indonesia's largest English-language newspaper by circulation, written by an expatriate editor at the Post, which expounded a similar theory.

Indonesia's railways are operated by the state-owned PT Kereta Api, and the newly formed PT Kereta Api Jabotabek, operating the commuter lines in the Jakarta metropolitan area.

A mural expressing support for Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission ( KPK ) on a support pillar of the abandoned Jakarta Monorail.

Nasroen reached the peak of his philosophical career when he was chosen as an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, one of Indonesia's largest and most respected universities.

RCTI ( Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia ) is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta.