Talk:Suharto/Archives/2006/April

New Additions and Changes

After a long time away from this article waiting for the peer review to be finalized, I've returned to work on this article. Just wanted to list some of the additions and changes.

1. The biggest one (IMHO) is the change citations from parenthetical to footnote/bibliography style. Also, the footnotes and bibliography are in a reduced font, done in a style that can be seen in Hugo Chavez. Given that the Chavez article won featured article status, I'm going to take the "if you can't beat'em, join'em" approach.
2. I got ahold of a decent biography of Suharto that really illuminates Suharto's pre-presidential years. It's R.E. Elson's Suharto: A Political Biography. I plan on making some further additions using this book as a reference.
3. In tandem with the Elson book, I managed to find some halfway decent pictures of him that I believe should be public domain, if not fair use. So now we have a lead photo again! They're from the Department of Information and State Secretariat of Indonesia. If anyone has a halfway decent knowledge of Indonesian intellectual property law (besides the lack of any enforcement), it'd be very appreciated.

For the future, I am looking to fatten up the portion on Suharto's military career, but eventually it will be exported to its own article (e.g. Military career of Suharto), much in the same way the Civil War and New Order sections got fattened up, exported, then trimmed.

After that is done, I hope to do another round of peer review, and then based on that nominating this to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates --Daniel 05:05, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you sure this picture is from the Department of Information and State Secretariat of Indonesia? Because the quality is very poor (not that the Department of Information and State Secretariat of Indonesia published good quality photographs :-)). I suspect it comes from some newspaper. Meursault2004 05:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I scanned these photos from the Elson book on a flatbed scanner. Unfortunately, that means the halftone pattern from the photo being printed onto paper got scanned too. The other two photos I used a blur effect and fiddled around with contrast to reduce the problem and got some progress out of it, but doing the same thing to the top photo ended up making it look very out-of-focus. --Daniel 06:38, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Well on the Indonesian Wikipedia we have a new picture of Soeharto which have come from the website of the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague, Holland. According to Indonesian law, the use of material published by the Indonesian government is not considered infringement of the copyright as long as it is not stated otherwise. If you speak Indonesian, you can read in the official site of government of Indonesia:

• UU No. 19 Tahun 2002, Pasal 14 (b):

Tidak dianggap sebagai pelanggaran Hak Cipta:

Pengumuman dan/atau Perbanyakan segala sesuatu yang diumumkan dan/atau diperbanyak oleh atau atas nama Pemerintah, kecuali apabila Hak Cipta itu dinyatakan dilindungi, baik dengan peraturan perundang-undangan maupun dengan pernyataan pada Ciptaan itu sendiri atau ketika Ciptaan itu diumumkan dan/atau diperbanyak.

Perhaps somebody can translate this.

Meursault2004 11:47, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Daniel, great work on the article! Here's a translation of the Indonesian law:

Announcement and/or circulation of any (material) announced and/or circulated by or in the name of the Goverment, excepting when the copyright is said to be protected, whether by law or by statement (appearing) on that material or when the material itself was announced and/or circulated.

Wow, that was a mouthful. Now I remember why I wasn't interested in law. Julius.kusuma 13:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Julius for the translation :-) Now this is the picture I am talking about:

Soeharto

. Meursault2004 15:32, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

After a period of inactivity on Wikipedia, I'm returning and hoping to complete some work on Suharto and related pages/subpages in April and May. To give a rough outline of what I'm planning to do (without any particular order):

1. Create an infobox template for Indonesian presidents (all six of 'em) that can be applied here.
2. Finish research on Suharto's military career that can be placed here, then exported to a new page, Military career of Soeharto akin to other military-political figures such Hugo Chavez (see Military career of Hugo Chavez) and Dwight Eisenhower (see Military career of Dwight Eisenhower). A glaring hole I've noticed is a gap between the end of the national revolution and the post-Independence years (during which Suharto was very active, including in the West Irian area which is a hot topic of late).
3. Elaborate a bit more on Suharto's personal life, with possibility of creating a page for his family, e.g. Kennedy family. This involves some work in not only cataloging his children but also extended family.

--Daniel 18:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)