75 Facts About Tommy Suharto

Tommy Suharto gained notoriety for orchestrating the assassination of a judge who convicted him of corruption.

Tommy Suharto was convicted of murder in 2002 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but was paroled in under four years.

Tommy Suharto's siblings are Siti Hardiyanti Astuti 'Tutut' Rukmana, Sigit Harjojudanto, Bambang Trihatmodjo, Siti 'Titiek' Hediati and Siti Hutami 'Mamiek' Endang Adiningsih.

On 27 September 1965, when he was three years old, Tommy Suharto suffered injuries from boiling water to his face and body.

Tommy Suharto had been playing with his younger sister Mamiek in the family's house on Jalan Haji Agus Salim in Central Jakarta when he ran into his mother, who was carrying into the dining room a pot of boiling hot oxtail soup, which washed over Tommy.

Tommy Suharto was rushed to the Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital in nearby Senen neighborhood.

Tommy Suharto went home about 12.15am and went to bed and was awoken at about 4.30am by news of the shootings.

Tommy Suharto then went to the United States to study agriculture but did not complete his studies.

Tommy Suharto returned to Indonesia to start his business career.

Time magazine in 1999 alleged that Tommy Suharto loved gambling and thought nothing of losing $1 million in a single sitting.

When Tommy Suharto was charged in 2000 with corruption over the misuse of funds from charitable foundations, the indictment stated that Sempati Air had received Rp 17.91 billion from Dakab foundation, Rp 13.17 billion from Supersemar foundation and Rp 11.168 billion from Dharmais foundation.

In 1989, Tommy Suharto formed a consortium, Marga Mandala Sakti, which lost a bid to his sister Tutut's company to build Jakarta's north harbor toll road, the North-South Link.

Tommy Suharto's concession was in 1996 extended by 10 years to 2011.

In December 1990, Tommy Suharto established a clove trading monopoly, the Clove Support and Trading Board, despite opposition from clove cigarette manufacturers.

In July 2007, Tommy Suharto was named a suspect in a 175 billion rupiah corruption case involving BPPC.

In 2008, the Attorney General's Office dropped the case on the grounds that Tommy Suharto had repaid the money.

Tommy Suharto was not summoned as a witness at the trial of Tansil, who was in August 1994 sentenced to 17 years in jail and then "escaped" in 1996 and left Indonesia.

The fact that Tommy Suharto had been a co-owner of the company when it obtained the loans and then sold his stake after part of the loans had been drawn upon in cash was not mentioned during the trials of Tansil and Bapindo officials.

In 1994, Tommy Suharto's Bermuda-registered company Megatech, which is co-owned by Malaysian firm Mycom Setdco, purchased Italian sports car maker Lamborghini from Chrysler Corp.

In February 1996, president Tommy Suharto announced Indonesia's "National Car" policy, in which a company intending to produce a national car would be exempted from duties and luxury tax, and tariffs on imported spare parts.

The only company allowed to benefit from the policy was Tommy Suharto's newly created PT Timor Putra Nasional.

Tommy Suharto was allowed to import 45,000 fully built Kia Sephia cars from South Korea and rebadged them as Timor cars.

In July 1997, state and private banks were encouraged by the government to provide a $650 million loan to Tommy Suharto to build a national car factory.

In January 1998, Tommy Suharto ended the Timor's tax breaks in line with reforms imposed by the IMF.

Tommy Suharto appealed twice to the Supreme Court, which on 13 December 2017 rejected his second appeal.

Previously, the Finance Ministry had filed a graft case alleging Tommy Suharto illegally sold assets from Timor to five of his companies.

Tommy Suharto responded by filing a US$21.8 million countersuit against the ministry.

Tommy Suharto won a separate US$61 million civil corruption case in February 2008, receiving US$550,000 in a countersuit.

PT Bina Reksa Perdana, in which Tommy Suharto was a majority shareholder, in the 1990s received a monopoly on the export of explosives made by state-owned explosives company PT Dahana.

In 2014, construction commenced of Mangkuluhur City, which Tommy Suharto is developing with businessman Harry Gunawan.

In 2016, Tommy Suharto was listed 56th on GlobeAsia magazine's list of 150 richest Indonesians, with wealth of $655 million.

Tommy Suharto declined to reveal how much tax he paid or the amount of assets he declared, but noted that most of them are abroad.

In 2002, Tommy Suharto was convicted of masterminding the July 2001 assassination of Kartasasmita.

Tommy Suharto was sentenced to 15 years jail on charges of murder, weapons possession and evading justice.

The court had found that Tommy Suharto paid 100 million rupiah to the two assailants that had killed Kartasasmita in a drive-by shooting.

Tommy Suharto was convicted for trying to flee justice from November 2000 after attempts to have his corruption conviction overturned or pardoned failed.

Tommy Suharto rarely showed up for his trial, claiming to be ill, and was absent when his verdict was announced.

Tommy Suharto served the first three weeks of his sentence in the Block H luxury wing of Cipinang jail, Jatinegara, East Jakarta, before being transferred to Nusa Kambangan Island prison off the southern coast of Central Java.

Tommy Suharto was often allowed to travel to Jakarta on the grounds of medical parole and was seen at an exclusive golf course.

Tommy Suharto's sentence was reduced to 10 years on appeal, and he was given conditional release on 30 October 2006.

Tommy Suharto spent a total of four years in detainment.

Critics said Tommy Suharto was released solely because of his wealth and his family's enduring power.

From late 1999 to September 2000, Jakarta was hit by a series of bombings, which were linked by some officials to efforts to prosecute members of the Suharto family, including Tommy, for corruption.

On 4 July 2000, Tommy Suharto was questioned at the Attorney General's Office as a witness in his father's corruption case.

Tommy Suharto ordered National Police chief Rusdihardjo to arrest Tommy and Habib for questioning.

Tommy Suharto confessed that Tommy had given her the bombs and shown her how to detonate them.

Tommy Suharto said Tommy had given her a blue Timor car.

Elize's confession that Tommy Suharto gave her the bombs was later withdrawn by her lawyer, Masiga Bugis, who claimed her client was suffering mental problems.

The six-page prosecution indictment stated Tommy Suharto had ordered the bombings.

Outside the trial, Elize said she had apologized to the "Cendana family" because Tommy Suharto was experiencing difficulties.

Tommy Suharto testified that the person who gave her the bombs looked like Tommy but she could not be sure it was him because it was dark.

In May 2011, Tommy Suharto won a lawsuit against Garuda Indonesia for Rp 12.51 billion in damages.

Tommy Suharto said Tommy's past should not have been mentioned because he had completed his prison term.

Tommy Suharto expressed concern that conventional media had been duped by fake news without checking sources.

Golkar officials in 2008 said they would not object to Tommy Suharto's children rejoining the party's board, provided they were not involved in any outstanding legal cases.

In 2009, Tommy Suharto sought to become Golkar chairman at the party's congress held in Riau province.

In May 2016, Tommy Suharto announced he would again run for the chairmanship of the Golkar, but he did not register for the race.

In 2016, Tommy Suharto formed the Berkarya Party, a merger of Beringin Karya Party and Nasional Republik Party.

In March 2017, Berkarya and another small party, Swara Rakyat Indonesia, announced they were supporting Tommy Suharto to run for the presidency in 2019.

In May 2017, Tommy Suharto said he was saddened by the present condition of Indonesia because corruption is thriving in parliament.

In October 2017, his lawyer denied Tommy Suharto was planning to run for office in 2019, saying fake accounts on social media were falsely claiming he had been endorsed by mass organizations.

On 11 March 2018, Tommy Suharto was named chairman of Berkarya Party.

In July 2018, Berkarya Party announced Tommy Suharto would be standing in the April 2019 general election as a candidate for the national legislature, representing Papua province.

Berkarya secretary general Priyo Budi Santoso said Tommy Suharto chose Papua because he is fond of "the little people and marginalized areas".

Tommy Suharto denied that Tommy has a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account, and demanded the fake accounts be removed.

Tommy Suharto said a YouTube account that pitted Tommy's "Cendana family" against President Joko Widodo had nothing to do with Tommy.

Tommy Suharto competed in Rally Indonesia in 1997 against World Rally Championship's top drivers.

Tommy Suharto drove a Subaru Impreza WRX, which he rolled at a corner, putting him out of the race.

In 2001, police questioned Maya during their search for Tommy Suharto when he was a fugitive.

Tommy Suharto was romantically linked to actress Nia Zulkarnaen, but Tommy Suharto's parents reportedly disapproved of the relationship.

On 28 April 1996, Tommy Suharto's mother died after a heart attack following a family dinner.

Tommy Suharto claimed the money disappeared with Tata without a trace, without Tommy's knowledge.

When Tommy Suharto was jailed on Nusa Kambangan prison for murder, he received overnight visits from his girlfriend Sandy Harun.

Tommy Suharto later gave birth to a daughter fathered by Tommy, Marimbi Djodi Putri.

In 2009, Tommy Suharto was romantically linked to model Catherine Wilson, after she was invited to one of his resorts in Bali.