THE usually calm Cendana area was full of tension last Thursday night. Dozens of policemen stood by at every entrance to the elite neighborhood in Central Jakarta. They stopped every car that passed and thoroughly searched passengers. Pedestrians did not escape being searched either.

In front of Tommy Suharto's house on Jalan Yusuf Adiwinata 4, dozens of journalists were gathered, waiting for the moment when Tommy would give himself up to the