DACHAMER Munthe’s face was tense. The civil suit papers against Suharto and the Supersemar Foundation he had just read out invited an immediate protest. On Monday last week, after he had finished reading the charges, lawyers for the former Indonesian President directly stated their objection.

The target of the attorneys was trivial. They questioned the word alias for the name Suharto. In the dossiers the prosecutor referred to defendant I as H