Spice Trail to Jail?

Funds belonging to clove farmers in North Sulawesi cannot be accounted for. Two suspects in the scandal are likely to follow BPPC boss, Tommy Suharto, to prison.

October 8, 2002

Tommy Suharto is now serving time in prison on Nusakambangan, a tiny island off Central Java often described as Indonesia's Alcatraz. But his past business dealings seem to have cast an indelible blight on the lives of clove farmers throughout Indonesia, including those in North Sulawesi. The Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Clove Farmers, Nelson Sasauw, has disclosed the embezzlement of Rp1.9 trillion from the savings of clove far

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