Police put up a `no entry' sign as they carried out a night-time operation in the Lebak Bulus district of South Jakarta. It bore the words "Operation find Tommy Suharto alias Ibrahim". It was one of a series of increasingly frequent such operations on the streets of the capital, aimed at reducing the room to maneuver of Indonesia's most famous fugitive. Will the police get Tommy? And when and if they do, will he be dead or alive?

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