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...Outside the smoke-filled Top Ten, where the Indonesian armed forces, or TNI, are fighting a bloody war against Acehnese separatists, a different military performance is being appraised, and with much less applause. Since the Suharto dictatorship collapsed in 1998, the Aceh conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution...
...role for itself as the only institution capable of holding the fractious archipelago together. Over the years, various leaders have dealt with the army differently?but always using the TNI as a means of staying in power. Sukarno, Megawati's father, played it off against the communists and Muslims. Suharto exploited it to enrich his family and cronies. After he fell, in keeping with the more liberal political winds prevailing at the time, civilian authorities tried to rein in the generals...
INDONESIA Hit Men A judge handed down life sentences to two men allegedly hired by former President Suharto's son Tommy to assassinate a Supreme Court judge, Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, in July 2001. Tommy Suharto is separately accused of masterminding the murder and could receive the death penalty if convicted...
...political columnist for Kompas, the nation's largest daily newspaper, say it is the cases the attorney general's office has declined to pursue that expose the current trials as little more than a sop to public opinion. For instance, the $3 billion extended by the central bank to Suharto crony Syamsul Nursalim's troubled business 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...
...generals some have accused of directing the operation. In fact, Megawati has signally failed to prosecute any senior military officers-not those behind the carnage in the East Timor, and not those who ordered snipers to shoot dozens of demonstrating students just before and after the downfall of Suharto...