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        "id": 1291806,
        "msgid": "on-soehartos-team-1447893297",
        "date": "2000-03-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "On Soeharto's team",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "On Soeharto's team I would like to comment on the letter Soeharto syndrome by Gandhi Sukardi in the Feb. 22 edition of The Jakarta Post. He wrote in the letter: \"Soeharto's family members, medical team and lawyers refused to give permission to meet with the former strongman on the grounds that he was too sick to talk coherently. An independent team of doctors appointed by the House Representatives was not allowed to see even a shadow of the speechless man\".",
        "content": "<p>On Soeharto's team<\/p>\n<p>I would like to comment on the letter Soeharto syndrome by<br>\nGandhi Sukardi in the Feb. 22 edition of The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote in the letter: \"Soeharto's family members, medical<br>\nteam and lawyers refused to give permission to meet with the<br>\nformer strongman on the grounds that he was too sick to talk<br>\ncoherently. An independent team of doctors appointed by the House<br>\nRepresentatives was not allowed to see even a shadow of the<br>\nspeechless man\".<\/p>\n<p>I disagree with the comment that the medical team (needed by<br>\nlawyers as the first team that made the first opinion) refused to<br>\ngive permission because the medical team didn't have any interest<br>\nor the authority to hamper activities targeted at Soeharto. The<br>\nmain duty of this team was to cure Soeharto according to medical<br>\nethics in the treatment of the sick. After the checkup, the team<br>\nsubmitted a sworn statement that Soeharto was sick and thus<br>\nincapable of \"certain\" activities, but this testimonial was not<br>\nmandatory for justice to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The team of doctors appointed by the House of Representatives<br>\nwas really useless because the only institution that has legal<br>\nauthority to investigate someone is a prosecutor; thus, only the<br>\nmedical team appointed by the Attorney General's Office possessed<br>\nthe legal power. The duty of this second team is based on a<br>\nsearch warrant from the Attorney General's Office; thus it is<br>\nreally independent and does not need any permission from the<br>\nfirst team, as said by Juan Felix Tampubolon, Soeharto's lawyer,<br>\non the recent Fokus newscast of Indosiar private television<br>\nchannel.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of justice, this second team should send the<br>\ntestimonial\/second opinion only to the attorney general as<br>\nneeded, and only this team is allowed to make a legal decision on<br>\nwhether Soeharto is capable of facing an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>H.M. HADI S.<\/p>\n<p>Cimahi, West Java<\/p>",
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