Model banned from visiting Tommy

SEMARANG: Actress and model Sandy Harun has been banned from visiting former president Soeharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, who is serving a 15-year jail term on an island prison in Cilacap regency, Central Java, an official said on Thursday.

The head of the Central Java Justice and Human Rights Office, Marsono, announced the ban during a hearing with Commission A of the provincial legislative council.

He said Sandy, who divorced businessman Setiawan Djody in 1999, visited Tommy last month at Nusakambangan prison and stayed for three days.

Marsono said he then ordered prison warden Sugiharyatmo to ban the actress from visiting Tommy.

Tommy was jailed for 15 years for graft and for ordering the murder of a judge. -- JP