Fri, 12 May 2000

Interest in Prabowo?

Will the Attorney General's Office take an interest now that Prabowo, the former chief of the Army's Special Force, has announced his intention to remain in Indonesia?

After all, quite apart from declaring an interest in something he prefers to call a "clean" intelligence service, this abductor of student activists knows a great deal about the background of those recruited into the prointegration East Timorese militias, among many other things.

DAVID JARDINE

Jakarta