Rubbing Shoulders with Two Presidents

The Gentler Sides of Soekarno and Suharto

Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Rubbing Shoulders with Two Presidents by Tom Graciano, Partridge Publishing Singapore
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Author: Tom Graciano ISBN: 9781466991576
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore Publication: June 9, 2013
Imprint: Partridge Publishing Singapore Language: English
Author: Tom Graciano
ISBN: 9781466991576
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Publication: June 9, 2013
Imprint: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Language: English

The book is a memoir relating the authors personal experiences as a free-lance journalist working in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1965 to 1972. The early part of the book describes how he met President Soekarno and became quite close to him during the last year of his presidency. Soekarno made him sit on his chair and his girl friend on his wifes chair during a performance one night at the presidents summer palace. He told the author, You play president tonight. The author also met President Suharto. The president and Mrs. Suharto invited him and a colleague to have lunch with the First Family on Monkey Island, one of the Thousand Islands Group in the Jakarta Bay. Suharto himself drove the car, with his wife next to him, in which the author and his colleague were seated on the passenger seat, on the trip from the presidents residence to the Yacht Club. Then the president was at the helm of the yacht steering her to Monkey Island. These were Indonesias first and second heads-of-state, more often than not portrayed by the foreign media as tyrannical and corrupt. But the author got to know the warm, friendly sides of the two leaders which he narrates in the book.

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The book is a memoir relating the authors personal experiences as a free-lance journalist working in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1965 to 1972. The early part of the book describes how he met President Soekarno and became quite close to him during the last year of his presidency. Soekarno made him sit on his chair and his girl friend on his wifes chair during a performance one night at the presidents summer palace. He told the author, You play president tonight. The author also met President Suharto. The president and Mrs. Suharto invited him and a colleague to have lunch with the First Family on Monkey Island, one of the Thousand Islands Group in the Jakarta Bay. Suharto himself drove the car, with his wife next to him, in which the author and his colleague were seated on the passenger seat, on the trip from the presidents residence to the Yacht Club. Then the president was at the helm of the yacht steering her to Monkey Island. These were Indonesias first and second heads-of-state, more often than not portrayed by the foreign media as tyrannical and corrupt. But the author got to know the warm, friendly sides of the two leaders which he narrates in the book.

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