The smile which normally decorates Hutomo Mandala Putra's face suddenly disappeared. At the investigator's room of the Jakarta police headquarters on Friday last week, he was shocked by the question TEMPO's journalist put to him.

"Are you ready for the death sentence?"

Tommy Suharto's face hardened. Indonesia's most wanted man, only taken in a couple of days before, his blood pressure visibly rose.

"Huh, what? Just see later," he snarled, pushing