End of Days
As if preparing to pack his bags forever, ailing ex-president Suharto recently asked two confidants to make a last will and testament. It was not for him. It was for his seven infamous ‘charities’.
November 20, 2000
It was a lonely scene. Former president Suharto gasped for breath in his room. He was two days into a sudden relapse in his long-running battle to cling onto life. After at least three strokes, the man all Indonesia feared for decades was worried about his legacy. His eldest daughter, Siti ‘Tutut’ Hardijanti Rukmana, used the edge of a veil to wipe his swollen eyes now and then. "Glistening with tears she intently observed the chest of
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