Suharto's Son to Stand for Election as Papua Candidate

Jakarta, MINA –The Tempo news service reports that Tommy Suharto has registered as a legislative candidate with the General Elections Commission under his newly formed Berkarya Party banner., RNZ reported.

The party’s secretary general Priyo Budi Santoso said Papuans had responded enthusiastically to Tommy Suharto.

He said Papuans will identify with Mr Suharto due to their nostalgia for President Suharto’s New Order regime.

It was under President Suharto’s rule that Papua was controversially incorporated into the Indonesian republic in the late 1960s.

Three years ago Indonesia’s Supreme Court ordered the Suharto family to repay hundreds of millions of dollars embezzled from a scholarship foundation. (T/RS5/RS1)

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Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA