-----Original Message----- From: George Aditjondro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Manurung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 19 Januari 1999 2:51 Subject: Re: Suharto properties (2) Martin -- yg di London itu yg saya mau foto-foto, utk persiapan menggugat balik si Probo. APPENDIX: PARTIAL LIST OF THE SOEHARTO CLAN'S OVERSEAS ASSETS ---------------------------------------------------------------- United Kingdom: ----------------------- Sigit Harjojudanto, owns two houses at: ------------------------------------------------------- = 8 Winington Road, East Finchley = ... Winington Road, East Finchley: 13 bedrooms; one of these houses is in front of Sultan Hasanah Bolkiah's mansion. Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana (Tutut) owns: ------------------------------------------------------- = two luxurious apartments on Hyde Park Crescent, near Kensington Palace. Siti Hediyati Haryadi (Titiek Prabowo) owns: -------------------------------------------------------------- = a luxurious apartment behind the US Embassy at Grosvernor Square. Probosutedjo owns: --------------------------- = Norfolk House, 38A Putney Hill, London SW15/6 AQ: three stories with basement, worth between 1-2 million Poundsterling. The caretaker of this property is Hamid Syaab, an Indonesian embassy staff, who stays in that house with some Indonesian students who receive their scholarship from Probosutedjo. Probosutedjo also stays in that house when he comes for recreation (as a tennis player and owner of the Mercu Buana tennis club, he likes to watch the Wimbledon tournament, which is only three subway stations away), or for his business trips, accompanied by his confidant, Tri Widodo. He also often treats journalists and pro-Suharto Muslim activists, such as Lukman Harun, the former chairperson of the Muhammadiyah Youth Organization, by inviting them to stay for a certain period in this house of his, covering all their expenses, including airfares from/to Jakarta. Other cronies of Suharto who have been guests in that house are the children of (Ret.) General Edi Nalapraya, former commander of the Jakarta army division and a co-shareholder in According to Probosutedjo, he bought this property between 1973 and 1974 for 93,000 pounds and is now worth more than one million pounds. According to a second source, the property was bought for only 13,000 pounds, and is indeed now worth around one million pounds. Then, according to a third source, the property was already valued at 1.3 million pounds, but Probosutedjo does not want to sell it unless it can earn him 1.5 million pounds. Tommy Suharto (or Sigit Harjojudanto) owns: ----------------------------------------------------------------- = golf course outside London. According to one source, Tommy bought the old, worn-out golf course through a public offering (tender), while according to another source, it was Sigit Harjojudanto who bought the golf course, recently, when the Indonesian currency (rupiah) was at its lowest to the Western currencies. (sources: Tiara, Dec. 5, 1993: 35; Forum Keadilan, June 1, 1996: 47; Dewi, June 1996; Swa, June 19 - July 9, 1997: 85; Far Eastern Economic Review, April 9, 1998; Kompas, Sept. 30, 1998; Gatra, Sept. 26, 1998: 59; key informants: students, journalists, former employees and business partners in the U.K. and Indonesia) United States of America: ----------------------------------- Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana (Tutut) owns the following two houses in Massachussets which are inhabited by her son, Dandy N. Rukmana and her daughter, Danti I. Rukmana, and Danty's own baby (father unknown): -------------------------------- = 60 Hubbard Road, Weston, MA 02193 (since July 1995): this property is valued at over US$ 2 million. It is held in the name of a trust which is overseen by a Boston lawyer named Mr. Willard McGraw. Weston is about 20 miles from Boston in the suburbs settled in the 1960s. It is a posh place. = 337 Bishops Forest Drive, Waltham, MA 02154 (since February 1992): this property is valued at US$ 352,000 and is listed under the name of a woman named Cheryl L. Davis. Waltham is about five miles from downtown Boston or three miles from Harvard Square in Cambridge. Sudwikatmono (Suharto's cousin) owns two houses in California (CA) at: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- = 605 N. Hillcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210: the owner listed for this property is C. Elliott Fitzgerald, who bought it on February 7, 1998 from Meya T. Fitzgerald. This change of ownership seems to be very recent, namely after Suharto stepped down from presidency on May 21, 1998. The house itself has been known by Indonesians in Los Angeles as Sudwikatmono's property since the late 1980s, since three of Sudwikatmono's siblings stayed in that house during their tertiary education at colleges in the L.A. area. This first house of the Sudwikatmonos is now rented out. = 701 N. Hillcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210: the owner listed for this property is Hillcrest Inc., or listed on another document as New Hillcrest Inc., with its mailing address on 650 Town Center Drive # 6, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. This property is valued at US$ 4,929,718. It appears that New Hillcrest Inc. bought this property on August 8, 1994 from Prestige Investment Company. This second house of the Sudwikatmonos is still being used by them, and the Lamborghini jeep of Sudwikatmono's only son, Agus Lasmono, is often parked at this house. Its daily inhabitants -- or prisoners! -- are two Indonesian housekeepers, who are not allowed to leave the house since their presence has not been reported to the US Immigration and Labor offices. There are two phones in this property, namely (310) 550-8604 in the living room, and (310) 550-060, which is in Sudwikatmono's bedroom. A further search for Hillcrest Inc. under the Secretary of State filings revealed that it is affiliated with Indohillcrest and Edward B. Djang. Mr. Djang has many business entities in the U.S. So far, the name does not ring a bell for me. Sudwikatmono also owns a condominium in Hawaii (HI) under his own name at: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- = 5333-290 Likini St. PH, with a mailing address at 1188 Bishop Street, Ste 2703, Honolulu, HI 96813: according to computerized tax assessors information in the US, this property appears to have been purchased in May 1985 for US$ 216,400. It is currently assessed at US$ 253,000. Bambang Trihatmodjo, Suharto's second son, and his wife, Halimah Agustina B.T.. own the following luxurious condominium in Century Citry, neighboring Beverly Hills: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- = Apartment No. 316 at 2142 Century Park Lane, CA 90067, bought on February 24, 1992, for US$ 825,000. The mailing address of this property is 1055 Wilshire Boulevard, # 1880, which is popularly known as "the Indonesian office" and has officially two names, namely: "HBE California Pacific Design" and "American Asian Properties", run by an Indonesian couple, Han and Evie Moeljadi, phone no (213) 481-0567. They themselves have two properties under their name, namely Apartment No. 216 in the same building with Bambang & Halimah's apartment, and a property on 13414 Edgebrook Road, La Mirada, CA 90638. = Other apartments/condominiums in the same Century Park Lane building, associated with Bambang are: ------------------ = Apart. No. 408, under the name of Rosano Barack and Sadlah, which was bought on June 14, 1991 for US$ 960,000, and has the same mailing address as the one above. Rosano Barack, or popularly known as "Cano", is a former school mate of Bambang and co-shareholder of his main business group, Bimantara; = Apart. No. 208, under the name of Rositah Gozali, which was bought on October 1, 1991 for US$ 859,000, and has the same mailing address as above. Rositah Gozali is most likely a relative of Boyke Gozali, CEO of the Ometraco Group, an Indonesian business conglomerate closely linked with Bimantara and Bambang personally in several joint ventures in huge property projects in Jakarta (Grand Hyatt Hotel & adjacent Plaza Indonesia shopping mall; Block M shopping mall) and Bali (Bali Turtle Island Development project) and in several poultry and poultry feed companies; Other companies associated with Bambang which own properties in the vicinities are: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- = Future Tree Investment Ltd.: this company is listed as having also bought the same apartment as Bambang's No. 316 apartment at 2142 Century Park Lane on July 29, 1992 for US$ 820,000, and has the same mailing address on 1055 Wilshire Boulevard # 1880. In addition, the same company bought Apt. No. 103 in the same Century Park Lane building on April 11, 1991 for US$ 581,000, as well as another property on 1708 Clear View Drive in Beverly Hills on September 1, 1992 for US$ 650,000. Then, with a slightly different name, namely Future Tree Investment Ltd. North USA, it bought a property on 1021 Cove Way, also in Beverly Hills, on September 27, 1993 for an incredibly low price of US$ 50,000. Obviously, this warrants further investigation! = Rajawali USA Inc.: this company is most probably a US subsidiary of the Rajawali Group, a conglomerate directed by Peter Sondakh which is closely associated with Bambang Trihatmodjo as well as with Boyke Gozali's Ometraco Group. Under the same mailing address as all the properties mentioned earlier, this company is listed as having bought a property on 2846 Deep Canyon Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90210 (Beverly Hills?) on February 28, 1991 for US$ 2,000,000. It was also involved in purchasing an undisclosed property on November 15, 1993 for US$ 23,500,000. Again, this warrants further investigation! Bambang Trihatmodjo, according to my sources in Beverly Hills and in Jakarta, has also obtained a luxurious condominium in the gated community of Beverly Park. The purchase was carried out by executives of the Ometraco Group. This information correlates with information from the property records which showed the earlier mentioned Bambang connections, namely that two lots (33 and 50) in Beverly Park were purchased on August 31, 1992 for US$ 2,300,000 and US$ 2,100,000, while the earlier sales prices on January 29, 1988 were exactly the same, namely US$ 23,500,000. A third lot (62) was purchased on October 15, 1993 for US$ 1,500,000, while its earlier sales price, also on January 29, 1988, was also US$ 23,500,000. The buyers of these three lots on Beverly Park were only known by their "company" names, Lot 33 Beverly Venture Inc, Lot 50 Beverly Venture Inc, and Lot 32 Beverly Park Inc. So, this really deserves further investigation by observing the actual properties and by interviewing Mr. and Mrs. Moeljadi. (sources: Eksekutif, March 1990: 133-134; Tiara, December 5, 1993: 35; Far Eastern Economic Review, April 9, 1998; Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 1998; key informants: academics, pro-democracy Indonesian activists, pro-East Timor activists, and journalists in the USA and Indonesia) Caribbean: --------------- Vacation houses on Cayman Islands (B.W.I.) and the Bermuda Islands. (sources: Ottawa Citizen, May 16, 1998; Die Welt, May 23, 1998) Jordania: ------------ Prabowo Subianto, the recently dismissed general and son-in-law of Suharto, has moved to Amman, where he has opened the Middle Eastern representative office of Tirtamas Group, the business conglomerate co-owned by his younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, a business ambassador of the Habibie Administration, and Titiek, Prabowo's wife. Thereby Prabowo obviously also has a house under his or Tirtamas' name in Amman. (source: Tempo, January 2, 1999). Suriname: --------------- Raden Notosoewito, Suharto's stepbrother from Kemusuk Village, Bantul County, Yogyakarta, is the head of the Kemusuk Somenggalan Foundation (Yayasan Kemusuk Somenggalan). This foundation is the holder of the stocks of PT Mitra Usaha Sejati Abadi (MUSA), holding company of a conglomerate which owns various businesses in Indonesia, Singapore, Hongkong, and Suriname. In Suriname, MUSA has obtained concession of 150,000 hectares of forests at the Apura District, western Suriname, an investment of US$ 1.5 billion. This concession, and MUSA Group's practice purchasing wood from outside the concession area, have been attacked by environmentalist worldwide. Besides the damaging environmental and cultural effects on the Amerindian Maroon tribe, their method in obtaining these concessions are also under attention, the 'high-level diplomacy' between Suharto, whom as the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement at that time, with Suriname ministers of Javanese ethnicity, especially the Social Minister Willy Sumita. This high-level displomacy, where $ 9 million of bribe money allegedly exchanged hands to the politicians is known there as "The Indonesian Connection." One of the approaches of the Kemusuk Somenggalan Foundation, which operates out of the Indonesian Embassy in Paramaribo, is to offer help in renovating the Suriname Presidential Palace. This project was proposed to be developed by a company under MUSA itself. (sources: Kompas, March 15, 1993, p.14 [the congratulatory advertisement on the election of Suharto as the President and Try Sutrisno as the vice President of Indonesia]; EIA, 196: 32; Skephi & IFAW, 1996; Friedland & Pura, 1996; Harrison, 1996; de Wet, 1996; Toni and Forest Monitor, 1997: 26-27, 29-30) Aotearoa (New Zealand): ----------------------------------- The hunting area of 2,500 hectares called Lillybank Lodge at the foot of Mount Cook and besides the Lake Tekapo on the Southern Island, which license was bought from the New Zealand government by Tommy Suharto in 1992. The total investment to obtain the license and to upgrade the properties into a luxurious mansion have amounted to NZ$ 6 million. (sources: AFP , 20 Mei 1998; Australian Financial Review , May 27 1998; homepage: www.lilybank.co.nz ; G.J. Aditjondro's field investigations at Lilybank in February 1998) Australia: ---------- "Obsessions," a luxury cruiser belonging to Tommy Suharto, valued at Aust$ 16 million, parked at the Cullen Bay Marina in Darwin. Merger between the billboard advertising firm from Melbourne, NLD, with the Humpuss Group of Tommy & Sigit, in 1997, along with the purchase of the stocks of the largest outdoor advertising firm in Malaysia, BTABS (BT Advertising Billboard Systems), giving Tommy and his Australian partner, Michael Nettlefold, with concessions to erect and operate billboards along the tollroads and freeways in the State of Victoria, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Burma, and China. (sources: Tempo, December 3, 1997: 8-9; Info Bisnis, July 1994: 9-23; Kontan, March 10, 1997; Australian Financial Review, December 17, 1997, March 13, 1998; Weekend Australian, August 10-11, 1998; Sydney Morning Herald, August 17, 196, December 11, 1997, April 6, 1998; The Suburban, Darwin, June 11, 1998; Port Phillip/Caufield Leader, June 22, 1998; various sources) Singapore: -------------- The oil and gas tanker company, of Bambang Trihatmodjo, et. al., Osprey Maritime, owns and operates a total of 30 tankers, with net worth over US$ 1.5 billion. Since June 1996, two of Osprey's tankers are contracted by the Saudi Basic Industrial Corporation to deliver oil and petrochemical products from Saudi Arabia to other countries. With the acquisition of a Norwegian tanker company listed in Monaco, Gotaas-Larsen, Osprey Maritime has became one of the largest oil-gas shipping company in Asia. (sources: Economic & Business Review Indonesia, June 5, 1996; Asiaweek, May 23, 1997: 65; LNG Current News, February 13, 1998) Tommy & Sigit's oil-gas tanker company, Humpuss Sea Transport Pte. Ltd., is one of the subsidiaries of PT Humpuss Intermoda Transport (HIT), which in turn is part of the Humpuss Group. In a joint venture with the Japanese company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines - operate the 13 oil-gas tankers and their LNGs, with a long-term contract with Taiwan. (sources: Swa, May 1991: 45-46; Prospek, January 18, 1992: 40-43; Info Bisnis, November 1994: 12; Jakarta Post, November 20, 1997) Probosutedjo also owns a property in Singapore. (source: undisclosed sources) Malaysia, Philippines, Burma, and China: ---------------------------------------------------------- In these four Asian countries, Siti Hardiyanto Rukmana still controls the following toll roads: = 166.34 km toll road between Wuchuan - Suixi - Xuwen in China; = 83 km Metro Manila Skyway & Expressway in Luzon, Phillipines; = 22 km toll road between Ayer Hitam and Yong Peng Timur, which is part of the Proyek Lebuhraya Utara Selatan toll road, measuring 512 km, connecting Singapore, Johor, into the Thailand border in Malaysia; = ?? km toll road shared with the Union of Myanmar Holding Co. in Burma. (souces: Info Bisnis, June 1994: 11-12; Swa, June 5-18 1997: 47; AP, February 21, 1997; Economic & Business Review Indonesia, March 5, 1997: 44) Asia - Pacific and Europe: -------------------------- Sudwikatmono is a minority shareholder (10%) in the transnational First Pacific Group, based in Hong Kong and lead by a professional manager from the Philippines, Manuel Pangilinan. The property division of this TNC is called First Pacific Davies, which owns hundreds of branch offices in the Asia-Pacific region, and is the owner/manager of million dollars worth of real estates. Starting on October 1, 1998, this company changed its name to FPD Savills, after purchasing a minority share of the British property consulting company, Weatherall Green & Smith (WGS). Although Sudwikatmono is only a minority shareholder, with FPD's assetts of US$ 5.2 billion in 1995, with the stock price in the Hong Kong stock exchange of over US$ 3.3 billiob, this company with property of over 45,000 employees in 40 countries is like a very productive milking cow for the Suharto family. With the formation of a new joint venture with WGS, FPD Savills has new branch offices in Frankfurt, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Muenchen, Essen, Madrid and Paris, and expansion plans to the Netherlands, Italy, Swiss, Greece, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland is at hand. (sources: The Australian, Sept. 23, 1996 (First Pacific's advertisement), Sept. 18, 1996; The Australian Financial Review, April 17, 1998; South China Morning Post, Sept. 24, 1998; Soetriyono, 1988: 66) Conclusion: ----------- This list only covers a fraction of the wealth of the Suharto family, in the form of houses, hunting areas, luxury cruisers, and property companies and tanker companies that are completely or partially owned by the family of the former third richest head of state in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. This does not include their shares in hundreds of companies abroad. If the Habibie Administration is sincere in trying to solve the basic foods problem for the peasants, and in investigating Soeharto's ill-gotten wealth and trying him for corruption and human rights violations during his 32-year rule, then Habibie should strongly persuade all those host governments to confiscate, sell and repatriate all the wealths of the Indonesian people which have been amassed by the Suharto family and their cronies. Newcastle, New Year 1999 References: ---------------- Aditjondro, G.J. (1996). Bali, Jakarta's colony: social and ecological impacts of Jakarta-based conglomerates in Bali's tourism industry. Working Paper No. 58. Perth: Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. ---------------- (1997). "The globalization of Suharto's East Timor diplomacy: a political economy perspective," Estefeta. Vol. 3/No. 2, May-September. Manila/Davao: Institute for International Dialogue (IID), pp. 46-54. Cohen, Margot (1998). 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