Powerful group of friends

Powerful group of friends

Maybe because they are unsure about the steps that have been
taken (to investigate ex-president Gen. Soeharto's wealth),
people tend to accuse the attorney general -- who is close to
Habibie -- of being reluctant to investigate the former president
because, after all, he too is a military man.

As for President B.J. Habibie, who gives the impression of
trying to avert investigating the case, there is no need for
doubt. The public feels certain that Habibie won't have the heart
to incriminate his former political professor because he was
raised by Soeharto. As Mr. Crack -- one of Habibie's nicknames --
so often admitted before the reform movement started rolling, he
learned much about politics from Soeharto.

Incidentally, could it be that Habibie is about to use this
very fact as his trump card to run for the presidency?

-- Bisnis Indonesia, Jakarta