Prabowo Subianto, chief of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, suddenly picked up his cellphone from the table. Then he hurled it at Suharso Monoarfa, a politician from the United Development Party (PPP). "Fortunately Suharso was able to duck," someone who was present at the occasion almost five years ago told Tempo last week.

That event transpired at the home of Prabowo's younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, in Pondok Indah, South J