abstract:Arief Budiman (born January 3, 1941 in Jakarta), also known as Soe Hok Djin (), is the older brother of Soe Hok Gie. He graduated from Kolese Kanisius, a Jesuit high school, and then Universitas Indonesia where he earned a bachelor degree in psychology in 1968.
"That Suharto is promoting a hardliner like this shows that he feels there is a serious threat to his power that he cannot see, " says political scientist AriefBudiman.