WHEN Suharto and I were establishing the New Order, what age were you all? Still in elementary school? Don't you know that it was I who made Suharto president?"

This was the "lecture" I gave to a number of Military Police officers while I was questioned inside the Guntur Detention Center in Jakarta. It was May 1998 and the political situation was very tense. There had been a series of disturbances and bombings all over the country. I and my younger br