It seems that the journalist in CNN who wrote this news didn't know much about Indonesia, because in one of his paragraph written:
"Suharto, who, like other Indonesians, only has one name, was president of Indonesia"
Well, in Batak people (which is definitely Indonesian as well) each person will have at least two names, his first name and family name. Not only in Batak, i believe lots of tribes in Indonesia also have family names such as Ambonese, etc. Maybe it's just a common tradition in Java, but it's not applied in all Indonesian.
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