Suharto's Not-too-Serious Sickness

For health reasons, Suharto's trial was called off. Now that his health is evidently normal, the prosecutor should act fast.

November 5, 2002

A TEAM of physicians and lawyers had concluded that former president Suharto's illness was permanent so he could never be brought to trial. Even the Attorney General's Office (AGO) has never been able to take him to court because he was never fit enough to be questioned. Last week, however, Suharto, 80, traveled out of the city to visit his son, Tommy, in Nusakambangan penitentiary, and then visited the graves of his wife and his parents in S

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