Word: suharto
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...Abubakar: I left Indonesia because I was being pressured by the military regime of [former President] Suharto. I didn't plan to stay in Malaysia long. While I was there I was a religious teacher and had a small business selling honey and oil. I was not involved in any political organizations or was active in any groups...
Most of the moviegoers crowding the multiplex for The Lord of the Rings weren't around for the first Tolkien fad. TIME was, in an issue that featured Indonesia's GENERAL SUHARTO on the cover...
...Indonesia's tragedy that such stories of slaughter have become numbingly commonplace since the collapse of the three-decade dictatorship of then President Suharto in 1998. The brutal military repression that kept a dizzying range of religious, cultural and ethnic hatreds in check until then has all but vanished ?with sometimes horrifyingly bloody results. But the story of Sulawesi is different, and what happens there in the coming weeks is critical, not just to the future of President Megawati Sukarnoputri and the country's 210 million people but to Indonesia's neighbors. The ramifications might be felt thousands of miles...
...Couples kissing after-hours. Pedicab drivers playing poker. Hookers and their johns. All are targets for the Council as it strikes in the name of Islam. Since the downfall of former President Suharto three years ago, violent Muslim raids on bars, discos and massage parlors have become commonplace in the capital, Jakarta. But now dozens of similar groups have appeared in smaller cities on Java and Sumatra. People are regularly clubbed, beaten or intimidated. Police rarely interfere. In Yogyakarta a soldier patrolling the streets says he has no problem with the roving vigilantes "as long as their actions...
INDONESIA Game Over for Tommy Detectives finally tracked down the fugitive son of former dictator Suharto, after a year on the run. Hutomo Mandala Putra, 39, nicknamed "Tommy," grinned at the crowds gathered around the police station where he was questioned on suspicion of involvement in various crimes, including murder. Jakarta?s police chief said Tommy was found at a house in Bintaro, southwest of the capital, and would face charges relating to illegal arms possession and the murder of a Supreme Court judge who had sentenced him to 18 months for corruption last year. Tommy had later skipped bail...