The Wire

Today the Indonesian Government is heading to a court in Guernsey, an island off Britain, in a bid to get access to the account of Tommy Suharto, the son of the former Indonesian dictator. Guernsey is an off-shore banking domicile and the Indonesian government alleges that $50 millions stashed in this account is public money that was siphoned off the Soharto family, during the decades of his corrupt rule. Some of this money came from multi-lateral donors such as the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. I spoke earlier with Macquarie University expert on Indonesia, Andrew Mack, about how the Soharto family got hold of these funds.