---------------------------------------------------------- FREE Subscribe/UNsubscribe Indonesia Daily News Online go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Precedence: bulk Straits Times [Singapore] Saturday 8 January 2000 PRABOWO 'IN SECRET VISIT TO JAKARTA' JAKARTA -- Retired lieutenant-general Prabowo Subianto, who was dismissed from the armed forces in disgrace in the aftermath of the May 1998 riots that helped topple his father-in-law Suharto, made a secret visit to Jakarta this week, newspapers here reported yesterday. Gen Prabowo, who once headed the powerful Army Strategic Reserve Command (Kostrad), ended his three-day visit on Thursday and later flew out to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. His close friend, Mr Fadli Zon, said Gen Prabowo had entered Indonesia from Singapore, where he had been visiting his ailing father, noted Indonesian economist Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, in hospital. Mr Fadli said Gen Prabowo had met the current Kostrad chief, Lieutenant-General Djaja Suparman, as well as Army Chief of Staff General Tyasno Sudarto. The armed forces has officially denied any knowledge of the meeting of the generals. In a statement carried by the Indonesian Observer, quoting the online service DetikCom, armed forces spokesman General Sudrajat said: "I don't know about it. If Prabowo did come to Jakarta and held a meeting with...Tyasno, I would have known." The Media Indonesia daily speculated on Thursday that Gen Prabowo had been meeting senior military figures here to try to close a reported rift in the top brass of the Indonesian armed forces. It was not mentioned whether Gen Prabowo had visited former strongman Suharto, whose health is failing. Now a resident of Jordan, where he runs a business, Gen Prabowo was dismissed by then armed forces chief General Wiranto after an inquiry into the kidnapping and disappearance of political activists during Mr Suharto's last months in power. -- AFP ---------- SiaR WEBSITE: http://apchr.murdoch.edu.au/minihub/siarlist/maillist.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 11 Jan 2000 jam 10:07:38 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++