Short answers, pulled from the story.
Suharto was born on the 8th of June 1921 in the hamlet of Kemusuk within the village of Godean in the Dutch East Indies. He grew up in a humble plaited-bamboo-walled house and lived with foster parents while shuttling between his mother and father in the poor farming area of Wuryantoro.
Suharto became acting president in March 1967 and full president in 1968 after seizing control of Jakarta following the 30th of September Movement on the 1st of October 1965. He mobilized his Kostrad and RPKAD special forces to end the coup attempt and position himself as the savior of the nation while the army purged the Communist Party of Indonesia.
Suharto appointed the Berkeley Mafia to implement free market policies that lowered inflation from 660% in 1966 to 19% in 1969 and achieved rice self-sufficiency by 1984. His government opened economic sectors to foreign investment and sustained real GDP growth at around 7% per annum while reducing the poverty rate from 45% in 1970 to 11% by 1996.
Suharto authorized the invasion of East Timor on the 7th of December 1975 to maintain stability and secure Western support during the Cold War. The subsequent 23-year occupation resulted in an estimated minimum of 90,800 and maximum of 213,600 conflict-related deaths including systematic human rights violations and a campaign of encirclement and annihilation.
Estimates of government funds misappropriated by the Suharto family range from US$1.5 billion to US$5 billion with some sources suggesting a total wealth of $73.24 billion. The family owned or controlled 3.6 million hectares of prime Indonesian land and had controlling equity in at least 564 companies while creating a network of charitable organizations to recycle donations as a slush fund.
Suharto announced his resignation on the 21st of May 1998 following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the Trisakti University killings on the 12th of May 1998. He became a recluse in his family compound, was placed under house arrest in 2000, acquitted of corruption in 2008, and died on the 27th of January 2008.