Cellphone Cops

Tommy Suharto has been on the run for nine months. The signal from his cellphone suggests he is still in Jakarta's elite Menteng suburb, where his family lives.

August 14, 2001

Police helicopters buzzed the Jakarta skies early last week in the latest bid to hunt down Indonesia's most wanted man. From its belly gushed forth thousands of leaflets bearing the face of a man with whiskers. Above it was a simple sentence: "Wanted, Ibrahim alias Tommy Suharto".

Hutomo Mandala Putra, better known as Tommy Suharto, still had not given himself up by Friday, although his family promised he would soon. Sentenced to 18 months in ja

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