Special Prisoner Number 2085

After playing about with the law for a bit, President Abdurrahman Wahid finally rejected Tommy Suharto’s request for clemency. What really went on at their meeting at the Hotel Borobodur?

November 6, 2000

He was a well-groomed prosecutor and he wore a checked jacket. But he looked confused as he waited outside the prisoner’s home. The scene is Jalan Jusuf Adiwinata 4, Jakarta. The time Friday evening last week. Rain was falling in fine drops and the prosecutor’s well-oiled hair was getting wet. Behind him, dozens of journalists were firing off their camera’s flash guns in the face of the nervous-looking fellow.

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