The Crying Game
Indonesia’s police have failed to solve a string of terror cases. Are Tommy Suharto, the military or other invisible forces behind the bombs? Who has the most to gain from an atmosphere of chaos and insecurity?
September 18, 2000
PRESIDENT Abdurrahman Wahid acted fast and hard. Only two days after a bomb exploded at the Jakarta Stock Exchange, he ordered police to arrest two of the masterminds. They were Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, son of former president Suharto, and Habib Ali Baagil, a Moslem religious leader close to the ultra-conservative Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).
Gotcha! The identities of the cowards who killed innocent people was now public knowledge. The bomb
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