JAKARTA’S Pertamina Hospital’s visiting hours were lax throughout Saturday last week. Since morning until close to midnight visitors came en masse to the hospital’s fifth floor to pay a visit to ex-President Suharto lying helpless in the emergency room No. 536.

Most of Suharto’s children and grandchildren were assembled on that floor where they prayed and recited Qur’anic verses. Visitors were coming and going. Suharto’s family was b