The Family Firm
A TIME investigation into the wealth of Indonesia's Suharto and his children
uncovers a $15 billion fortune in cash, property, art, jewelry and jets
By JOHN COLMEY and DAVID LIEBHOLD Jakarta
1. a staggering sum of money linked to Indonesia had been shifted from a bank
in Switzerland to another in Austria
=========== Harry: Berapa perbandingannya penggondolan duit rakyat oleh Mbah
Harto Inc dibandingkan dengan para konglo hitam? Siapa juaranya pengemplangan
duit rakyat ini bukan masalah!, kedua2nya (mbah Harto Inc dan konglo hitam)
sama2 punya andil men-deldel duwelkan negara RI
2.. Not bad for a man whose presidential salary was $1,764 a month when he left
office. (Suharto, for his part, denies that he has any bank deposits abroad and
insists that his wealth amounts to a mere 19 hectares of land in Indonesia,
plus $2.4 million in savings.)
===========Harry: Inilah apa yang telah saya sodorkan tentang 80 anggota pakpul
Ozzie yang kena sidik team independent soal perbandingan antara salaris dan
harta yang jomplang ke-mana2.
Those billions are just part of the Suharto wealth. the former President and
his children retain a staggering fortune. It was built over three decades from
a skein of companies, monopolies and control over vast sectors of economic
activity in Indonesia--
===========Harry: Tapi where is the proof, ngak ada yang bisa membuktikan
kan...cuman buktinya bisa dilihat didunia riil, rakyat tambah kere!. Krismon
yang sama2 melanda negara2 Asteng, banyak/sebagian besar negara Asteng sudah
bangkit tinggal Indonesia masih groggy sempoyongan sebentar lagi bakalan
k.o.Kalau fondasi memang kuat maka ekonomi akan bisa bangkit kembali. Tapi bila
ekonomi sudah deldel duwel dimakan rayap maka untuk bangkit sudah susah apalagi
memperbaiki.
3.corporate entities controls some 3.6 million hectares of real estate in
Indonesia, an area larger than Belgium. That includes 100,000 sq m of prime
office space in Jakarta and nearly 40% of the entire province of East Timor.
==============Harry:Bayangin tuh a petty criminal kayak mbah Harto punya tanah
seluas negara Belgium. Darimana didapatnya tanah seluas itu?
4.Within Indonesia, the six Suharto offspring have significant equity in at
least 564 companies, and their overseas interests include hundreds of other
firms, scattered from the U.S. to Uzbekistan, the Netherlands, Nigeria and
Vanuatu. The Suhartos also possess plenty of the trappings of wealth. In
addition to a $4 million hunting ranch in New Zealand and a half-share in a $4
million yacht moored outside Darwin, Australia, youngest son Hutomo Mandala
Putra (nicknamed Tommy) owns a 75% stake in an 18-hole golf course with 22
luxury apartments in Ascot, England. Bambang Trihatmodjo, Suharto's second son,
has an $8 million penthouse in Singapore and a $12 million mansion in an
exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, two doors down from rock star Rod
Stewart and just up the street from his brother Sigit Harjoyudanto's $9 million
home. Eldest daughter Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana may have sold her Boeing 747-200
jumbo jet, but the family's fleet of planes included, at least until recently, a
DC-10, a blue-and-red Boeing 737, a Canadian Challenger 601 and a BAC-111. The
latter once belonged to the Royal Squadron of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II,
according to Dudi Sudibyo, managing editor of Indonesia's Angkasa aerospace
magazine.
========Harry: Apakah pengarang tulisan ini, hanya ngaco belo tentang
"asumsi"(karena sukar dibuktikan) kekayaan Mbah Harto Inc yang segedubrak itu?
Kenapa mereka tidak di sue oleh pengacara2 Mbah Harto dan dituntut karena
melanggar defamation-act,pelecehan nama baik seseorang? Tinggal kita tunggu
Mbah SBY perlu turun tangan nih. Tapi kelihatannya setelah Mbah SBY sungkem ke
Mbah Harto waktu sakit ya tahu sendirilah. Korps TNI harus dijaga
keutuhannya...jangan rock the boat....jangan kurang ajar sama tetua.....inilah
moral behind the story kenapa Mbah SBY juga seorang lame duck bila kena batunya
sama gerombolan Mbah Harto
Bambang asserted that their clients did nothing illegal. Indeed, no one has
proven that the Suhartos broke any laws.
South Jakarta district court recently rejected a plea from Tommy's lawyers
that he be tried in a civil court and is proceeding with a criminal trial.
5. Private asset-tracing firms are excited at the prospect of a Suharto
treasure hunt, if only Jakarta would hire them. "In terms of dollars, we think
this could be bigger than anything we have ever seen before," says Stephen
Vickers, Asia chief for Kroll Associates, which helped investigate the wealth
of the Philippines' former President Ferdinand Marcos. "My bags are packed."
==============Harry: Sudah lama tuh ada perbandingan korupnya si Marcos itu
kayak peanut kalau dibanding dengan Mbah Harto. Paling2 Imelda Marcos yang rada
sinting itu beli sepatu terlalu banyak (3 ribu pasang)
6. Attorney General Andi Muhammad Ghalib, gives the go-ahead. Ghalib, a
three-star general in the Indonesian military, told TIME that he has found no
evidence that his former supreme commander wrongly acquired state assets. But
Ghalib has been moving slowly, and some of his own staff members are not
convinced the investigation is serious. In the opinion of an official in the
Attorney General's office, "Ghalib is on a mission to protect Suharto."
========Harry:Mubeng2 yang jadi pemimpin, ya pemimpin residu atau recicle-an
zaman era Orba, simple as that.Apalagi kalau yang pegang kendali institusi
paling penting seperti judisiil,lalu kepegang dedengkotnya Orba bakalan deldel
duwellah perkara hukum ini.
7. as well as examinations of dozens of documents (including bank records of
outstanding loans), TIME correspondents found indications that at least $73
billion passed through the family's hands between 1966 and last year. Much of
that was from the mining, timber, commodities and petroleum industries. Bad
investments and Indonesia's financial crisis have reduced the sum
substantially. But evidence indicates that Suharto and his six children still
have a conservatively estimated $15 billion in cash, shares, corporate assets,
real estate, jewelry and fine art--including works by Indonesian masters
Affandi and Basoeki Abdullah in the collection of Siti Hediati Hariyadi, the
middle daughter known as "Titiek."
===========Harry:Kapan rakyat bisa dapat kembali uang $15 billion yang
dikempalng oleh Mbah Harto ini? Kelihatannya akan sangat rermote harapan ini,
perlu mukzizat.
8.Suharto laid the foundation for the family fortune by establishing the
intricate nationwide system of patronage that kept him in power for 32 years.
."
9.While the Indonesian economy was growing fast, it was possible to make light
of the Suhartos' rent-seeking ways. Now, with half the population below the
poverty line as a result of the financial crash, there is little doubt that the
family grew wealthy at the expense of the nation. A former business associate
of the children estimates that they skipped tax payments of between $2.5
billion and $10 billion on commissions alone. "It is very likely that none of
the Suharto companies has ever paid more than 10% of its real tax obligations,"
says Teten Masduki, an executive member of Indonesian Corruption Watch, an
anti-graft non-governmental organization. "Can you imagine how much revenue has
been forgone?"
===========Harry: Entah berapa rakyat yang hidup dibawah poverty line saat ini?
Apalagi tiap tahun ratusan ribu orang yang siap masuk dalam work-force. Cycle
setan ini namanya, tempat kerja tambah tapi juga penduduk yang siap kerja
tambah juga.
10.Many Indonesians also blame Suharto for creating a climate of corruption
that pervaded the entire economy. The World Bank estimates that as much as 30%
of Indonesia's development budget over two decades disappeared through
civil-service-wide corruption that filtered down from the top.
========Harry:Kemungkinan sekali duit yang dikemplang sekarang tambah melonjak
dengan cepat dan tinggi melihat keadaan Indonesia yang amburadul. Kemiskinan
dan menjalarnya penyakit itu seperti hand in hand jalannya , ibaratnya seperti
mercu suar bahwa ada sesuatu yang tidak beres. Kemiskinan dan penyakit tidak
bisa dipisahkan....... Banyak orang sakit karena miskin....karena orang miskin
dari iyu mereka jatuh sakit, simple as that!
11."If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd," says Edwin Soeryadjaya,
a director of an Indonesian-U.S. telecommunications joint venture. "It's very
sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most
corrupt countries in the world."
=======Harry: Eiiiit ada juga orang yang malu jadi orang Indo nih,nga' heran
banyak tuh yang selain malu tapi sudah putus asa, pasip karena ibaratnya orang
bilang sudah... angkat tangan....serahin aja sama nasib....?apa bener nih?
Harry Adinegara
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