A Trail that Nobody is Following

Is Tommy really that difficult to catch, or does somebody want him to stay on the run?

August 21, 2001

He has been missing almost exactly nine months. The list of his alleged crimes has lengthened. The police have accused Hutomo Mandala Putra of being involved in acts of terror and murder, not just corruption. In the last two weeks, copies of a new photo of him—complete with beard—has been scattered around every corner of the city. Thousands of police have been deployed to hunt him down. But the result so far is a big, fat zero. The

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