The more famous the suspect, the more high profile their lawyer becomes. The latest object of that truism is a round-faced 44-year-old named Elza Syarief, attorney-at-law to Tommy Suharto.

"I am becoming ever more well known," Syarief acknowledges. But, in words echoing those of celebrities of all kinds, she fears the price of fame. "Whatever the news is about me, it will be blown up."

As the Jakarta-born mother of fi