Son of Indonesia's ex-dictator guilty of ordering murder

Saturday, July 27, 2002

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The playboy son of former dictator Suharto was convicted Friday of ordering the murder of a Supreme Court justice and sentenced to 15 years in prison in a case that symbolizes Indonesia's struggle to rein in judicial corruption and the abuses that defined the Suharto era.

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