Cheats and Complaints
Former Bulog chief Beddu Amang claims he was blackmailed for billions of rupiah. The alleged culprits were the same gang that arranged last year's controversial meetings between then president Abdurrahman Wahid and Tommy Suharto.
October 9, 2001
For a court session, it was far from tense. Last Thursday, a case was heard at the South Jakarta District Court. It was not just any case. It was the same Bulog Goro land-swap scam saga that is estimated to have lost the state a whopping Rp95 billion and landed one-time playboy Tommy Suharto with a jail term. This hearing occurred just four days after the Supreme Court let Tommy off again courtesy of a judicial review. But it wasn't Tommy in the d...