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...inaugurated on May 20 as the leader of the world's newest independent country. In 1999 troops and militias aligned with the Jakarta government rampaged through the countryside, killing hundreds of people and creating 260,000 refugees following a U.N.-sponsored referendum, in which voters favored secession from Indonesia...
...just sat through the first few days of his trial for the murder of a Supreme Court Justice last year. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. But life in Jakarta's maximum security penitentiary seems to agree with the 39-year-old Tommy, the youngest son of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto. After four months in prison awaiting trial, he arrived for the opening legal arguments last week at a central Jakarta courthouse looking rested and a little plumper. He slumped lazily in his seat, repeatedly grinning and gesturing at the bank of reporters packed into the stifling...
...Tommy's trial is one of several designed to take some political heat off President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Dogged at home and abroad by the reputation that she is more interested in cutting ribbons than crafting policy, the daughter of the man who founded Indonesia could badly use a bit of Dad's populist charm in dealing with Indonesia's myriad woes: economic stagnation, religious violence, allegations of terrorist networks, not to mention several secessionist movements. The high profile trials of Tommy Suharto, House Speaker Akbar Tandjung, 18 military officers accused of human rights abuses during East Timor's transition...
...empire in the wake of the 1997 financial crisis remains unexplained, let alone investigated. The Nursalim family has long been closely associated with the President's businessman husband, Taufik Kiemas. Taufik is emerging as the country's second most powerful figure, meeting regularly with senior ministers and even representing Indonesia on trips overseas. His business deals-and his close ties to families like the Nursalims-are drawing increasing fire from the President's critics...
...take the most famous case of all, the decision not to pursue prosecution of Tommy's father, the ailing ex-dictator who ruled Indonesia for almost three decades before resigning amid bloody street riots in 1998. Megawati's government has chosen not to prosecute a $570 million corruption case against the former autocrat citing his ill health and suggesting that all former leaders should be treated "humanely...