Something appears to have been ignored recently: the investigation of Suharto, the nation's second president, over a number of legal violations during the rule of the New Order.

So how should we now view Suharto? A recent book by a professor at Griffith University, Australia is being questioned by a National Institute Of Sciences (LIPI) researcher, Asvi Warman Adam, who asks whether it tries to understand the former president, or to extol h