Settling for the Cash
By enacting self-serving policies, Suharto was able to enrich himself and his cronies through a number of foundations. Now the attorney general is attempting to reclaim the missing trillions of rupiah through civil courts.
May 23, 2006
THE meeting last Wednesday, led by Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh and attended by high-ranking officials of the Attorney Generals Office (AGO), lasted for three hours. One of the items on the agenda was to seek control of the Suharto foundations. After failing to drag the New Order leader into criminal court for reasons of poor health, the AGO is now looking at a civil lawsuit to realize its objective. Suharto cannot evade this court of last
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