Celebrity Cells

Nusakambangan Prison is Indonesia's penitentiary to the stars, Within its walls, Tommy Suharto sits aloof while the ever-entrepreneurial Bob Hasan peddles beads.

December 17, 2002

Tommy Suharto "celebrated" Lebaran, the post-Ramadan event, in Nusakambangan's Batu Prison on the third, not the first, of I>Syawal, the month after Ramadan on the Islamic calendar. That day he recited the Eid prayer then spent the rest of the day alone in his room, where witnesses said he seemed secluded and depressed. No one from his family had come to visit.

Two days later, however, former president Suharto's favorite son looked to be truly

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