COMMENT A debate over whether former president Suharto should be included in the list of his country’s national heroes is presently raging in Indonesia and will have resonance for our country in the near future.

It’s not hard to predict that Malaysia too will come round to drawing up a similar list such that the merits of including Suharto in the Indonesian pantheon - which is hotly contested by critics of the dictator’s 32-year rule - will have relevance for our hypothetical list...