TANGERANG  A spokesman for the Anti-drugs department of the Metro Jaya regional police in Jakarta, Arman Depari, just announced the initials of the six people that were arrested in Ruko Mutiara Palem, Cengkareng, Tangerang, while the full names of those arrested were already known to the reporters at the press conference. The people arrested were Siegfried Mets (Dutch), Ong Tiong Yoh (Singapore), Chen Hoa Yi (Taiwan), Tzu Chiang (Taiwan), Li Hao Yi (Taiwan) and Alek alias Alexander (Indonesia).

With the bust some 600.000 tablets of ecstasy with a value of 60 billion Rupiah (4.4 million euro) were seized from six blue suitcases. The drugs were most likely smuggled into Indonesia from the Netherlands and to avoid detection at the airport, the tablets were hidden inside electrical panels. Police also seized two Kijang Innova and a Suzuki Escudo together with a Siemens compressor, seven cell-phones and seven passports.

JAKARTA  A court on Thursday rejected a civil case against the youngest son of former presidet Suharto for alleged corruption and awarded him 550,000 dollars in a countersuit he filed, judges said. The move provoked an outcry among activists in Indonesia who have been fighting to bring the relatives of Suharto, who died last month aged 86, to justice over alleged graft.

“The panel of judges accepted the counter-lawsuit filed by Tommy Suharto and ordered Bulog to pay immaterial damages to Tommy Suharto in the amount of five billion rupiah (364.000 euro),” he added. Tommy is a former commissioner for Goro Batara Sakti (GBS), a supermarkt chain which has now gone defunct. The company acquired prime land owned by Bulog in trade for some worthless swamps in northern Jakarta.