Hectored Hectares?

Two ministers of the Suharto era, have become defendants in a corruption case. So why is Bambang Trihatmodjo just a witness?

March 19, 2002

It's just a 4,003-square-meter piece of land. But the price, 12 years ago, reached Rp10 billion. It means that at that time the price for 1 square meter reached Rp2.5 million. It wouldn't have been such a big deal, if it wasn't bought with government money by officials during former President Suharto's era. And—this is what made it so peculiar—that the land was bought from Bambang Trihatmodjo, the eldest son of the New Order power hol

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