...Liddle essentially concludes that Soeharto's downfall at age seventy-six was due to a growing inability ‘to distinguish between the interests of his family and his cronies and those of the nation'. 90 More important than impaired judgement or senility, however, was the fact that the economic reforms...

...Thus, he concludes that Soeharto's downfall at the age of seventy-six was due to a growing inability ‘to distinguish between the interests of his family and his cronies and those of the nation' (Liddle 1999: 25). A different understanding of Soeharto's fall and of subsequent developments in Indonesia...