The NatMajor Suharto and his troops faced several years of tough fighting and harsh conditions in their guerrilla war against the Allies; with little financial support from the Republic of Indonesia's infant government, he smuggled opium to buy supplies for his men. In December of 1948, the Dutch forces captured the Indonesian capital at Yogyakarta and took Sukarno captive. Suharto counterattacked, and managed to retake the city on March 1, 1949. Under pressure from the United Nations, the Dutch formally withdrew and transferred sovereignty to the Indonesian government in December of 1949.
Meanwhile, as the revolution raged, in 1947 Suharto married Siti Hartinah from one of Java's noble families. They would have six children over the course of their 49-year marriage, which ended only with her death in 1996. With her, Suharto found the family stability that had been absent during his childhood.
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