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...encouraging. With two exceptions, no high-profile corruption case against Suharto-era figures has been successfully prosecuted. "The proof in the hands of the police tends to weaken once the suspect has been caught," says Amir Syamsuddin, a legal adviser to Tommy's eldest sister, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, or "Tutut," the onetime head of a powerful corporation who has also faced corruption charges. "Once he's caught, then the game begins...
...with 22 luxury apartments in England. Bambang Trihatmodjo, Suharto's second son, has an $8 million penthouse in Singapore and a $12 million mansion in an exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, just up the street from his brother Sigit Harjoyudanto's $9 million home. Eldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana ("Tutut") may have sold her Boeing 747-200 jumbo jet, but the family's fleet of planes included, at least until recently, four other jets...
...cost overruns. Second son Bambang was given a slice of the lucrative business of importing and distributing basic commodities, such as wheat, sugar, soybeans and rice. Through sugar trading alone, he is estimated to have earned as much as $70 million a year, essentially for stamping documents. Eldest child Tutut became the queen bee of the clan. At the peak of her power, according to sources close to the family, investors seeking to meet her first had to pay a "consulting fee" of up to $50,000 to her minions...
...Indonesian president's cabinet appointments -- seen as the first test of Suharto's sucessor and his ability to survive -- drew a lukewarm response when they were unveiled here Friday morning. Out: Suharto golf buddy Mohammed "Bob" Hasan, as well as the former president's extremely unpopular daughter Tutut. Still in: Foreign Minister Ali Alatas, Economic Minister Ginanjar Kartasasmita. TIME Jakarta correspondent Terry McCarthy rates Habibie's cabinet a C-minus: "It's only halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done." Habibie did craftily avoid making a move...
...spurt of optimism when the IMF said it was sending a team to Jakarta for talks on reviving the aid package. But by Saturday the mood dampened again as Suharto announced his new Cabinet and for the first time included a family member: his eldest daughter, known as "Tutut," who has extensive business interests. The new Trade Minister is chief crony Bob Hasan, a golfing partner dubbed "the Plywood King" for his control of the timber trade...
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