Kidnapped or In Hiding?

A businessman has been abducted and a ransom of Rp7 billion demanded. It was apparently the amateur work of someone close to the victim.

August 7, 2001

Since Saturday two weeks ago, Bill Darmawan, a younger brother of the Matahari group boss Harry Darmawan, has reportedly been kidnapped. The kidnapper, who contacted Bill's son Jerry by phone demanded a huge ransom of Rp7 billion.

Bill, 59, is one of the commissioners of the Matahari group, the biggest middle-class retail business network in Indonesia. He is 168 centimeters tall and weighs 75 kilograms, has black curly hair and has false left

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