Dodi, Gus Dur and the Borobudur Meeting

Raden Dodi Sumadi is not just an extra. He is the one who arranged the meeting between then president Abdurrahman Wahid and Tommy Suharto on October 5 last year at the Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta. This was a controversial meeting which provoked a lot of criticism of the president. Two weeks earlier the Supreme Court's Court of Cassation had sentenced Tommy Suharto to 18 months in jail for the Bulog-Goro land-swap scam. The panel of judges was headed ...