RETIRED lieutenant-general Prabowo Subianto bowed his head as he listened to questions from Hira Teti. The mother of the late Elang Mulia Lesmana asked about a promise that Prabowo made a few days after the tragedy, 15 years ago, which claimed the lives of four Trisakti University students, one of them Elang. "I asked why he didn't come," Teti told Tempo last week.

Teti posed her question at a closed meeting in one of the function rooms of a five-s