---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ and click banner our sponsor ---------------------------------------------------------- Indonesia's Suharto visits wife's grave in Solo SOLO, Indonesia, Jan 22 (AFP) - Indonesia's fallen president Suharto, his family and former aides on Friday visited the grave of the former president's wife at a family mausoleum in this Central Java town, witnesses said. Protestors who had dogged the veteran leader's visit to Solo were absent from the area, the witesses said. Accompanying the Suhartos were ex-armed forces commander Benny Murdani, former army chiefs of staff Hartono and Wismoyo Arismunandar, noted Moslem scholar Quraish Shihab, and business tycoons Probosutejo and Sudwikatmono. Shihab, who was religion minister before Suharto resigned in May, led an almost six-hour long religious ritual commemorating the 1,000th day since the death of Siti Hartinah Suharto, better known as "Madam Tien," an AFP photographer said Only photojournalists were allowed to enter the mausoleum after a stand-off between journalists and plainclothes security guards. The veteran leader's visit to his wife's hometown to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr Moslem holiday has been greeted by scattered protests. Some 100 residents and students demonstrated near the Kalitan palace, the mansion of Madam Tien's family, late Monday shortly after Suharto and his family arrived. The protestors were demanding that Suharto apologise for his past mistakes and that he be brought to trial, the state Antara news agency said. On Thursday, more than 100 farmers who were evicted from their land by the government in the early 1990s to make way for a dam project in Boyolali district, staged a sit-in protest in front of the family mansion. The protestors said they only wanted to tell Suharto that his dam project had caused them great suffering, but were refused admittance. However, on Tuesday when Suharto and his family were performing the Eid prayers, protestors were absent. Tien died of a heart attack in April 1997. Since resigning as president on May 21 last year, Suharto has spent most of his time at his residence in Jakarta. Despite widespread calls for his house arrest while he is being investigated for alleged corruption, collusion and nepotism during his 32-year rule, the government of his succesor and protege B.J. Habibie has made no move to restrict his movements. str-tn/kw/jd ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 23 Jan 1999 jam 03:27:14 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
