It's not easy to elicit words from Tommy Suharto. Since his capture late last year after months on the run and now on trial on murder charges, Tommy has turned into a man of few words. He only smiles when reporters, tape recorders and cameras in hand, strain to catch one or two words from the playboy youngest son of former strongman Suharto.

Tommy's trial, which is taking place in a special hall of the Jakarta Fair Ground at Kemayoran, Central Jak