THE New Order regime fell 23 years ago, but successive post-Suharto administrations have failed to resolve the problematic debts incurred by crooked business people from that era.

The most obvious example is the loans taken out by Putra Nasional owned by Hutomo Mandala Putra, alias Tommy Suharto. With the backing of the government’s national car program, Tommy turned the KIA brand from South Korea into Timor. The company was enti