Indonesia's first president and a founding figure of the non-aligned movement. At the Bandung conference in April 1955, he bristled at emerging-world countries being "the tools of others and the playthings of forces they cannot control". He is the father of a political rival of Prabowo Subianto, Indonesia's current president.
Prabowo has invoked the political set-up under Sukarno as a model for a permanent ruling coalition without opposition parties, arguing that it better reflects Indonesian culture than adversarial systems.
We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.